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I'm a poet who can whine in meter

Sherman Alexie

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Sherman Alexie
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: October 7
Film Director
Film Producer
Novelist
Poet
Screenwriter
Writer
Wellpinit
Washington
Sherman Joseph Alexie
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Whine
Meter
Poet

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It's a weird thing. Reservations were meant to be prisons, you know? Indians were supposed to move onto reservations and die. We were supposed to disappear. But somehow or another, Indians have forgotten the reservations were meant to be death camps.
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He made me realize that hard work--that the act of finishing, of completing, of accomplishing a task--is joyous
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One play can change your momentum forever.
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All art is exploitation.
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Listen you have to read a book three times before you know it.
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I realized that I might be a lonely Indian boy, but I was not alone in the loneliness. There were millions of other Americans who had left their birthplaces in search of a dream. (217)
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Summer coming like a car from down the highway.
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Everybody likes to have a place to think, to meditate, to eat a burrito.
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I've come to the point in my life where I encourage young Native Americans to become much more selfish about their personal needs and wants.
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I don't have to participate in another culture's ceremonies in order to respect that culture.
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What if someone picks on me? I asked Then I'll pick on them. What if someone picks my nose? I asked. The I'll pick your nose, too Rowdy said.
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The world is divided by two different tribes. The people who are assholes and the people who are not.
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Books and beer are the best and worst defense.
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The poetry, if you will, of life is reduced to this sort of dry, scientific, you know, it's the worst sort of précis of who we are.
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When you construct a mix tape, the first song you come out with has to be a barnburner.
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She was in pain and I loved her, sort of loved her, I guess, so I kind of had to love her pain, too.
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In a sense, you're always mythologizing your life it's always an effort to make yourself epic. At least in fiction you can lie and sort of justify your delusion about your epicness. But when you're writing a memoir, you're trying to make your life epic and it's not - nobody's life is.
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I love to scare the already terrified assholes.
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I used to sleep with my books in piles all over my bed and sometimes they were the only thing keeping me warm and always the only thing keeping me alive. Books are the best and worst defense.
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If one reads enough books, one has a fighting chance.
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