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I suddenly understood that if every moment of a book should be taken seriously, then every moment of a life should be taken seriously as well.

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Sherman Alexie
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: October 7
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Sherman Joseph Alexie
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But we danced, under wigs and between unfinished walls, through broken promises and around empty cupboards.
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I've learned that the worst thing a parent can do is ignore their children
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Poverty doesn’t give you strength or teach you lessons about perseverance. No, poverty only teaches you how to be poor.
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I'm not a pacifist by any measure, but I'm also fully aware that the reasons I might go to war could be very dubious.
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It's not oil that runs the world, it's shame.
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Don't live up to your stereotypes.
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she braided my sister's hair with hands that smelled deep roots buried in the earth she told me the old stories how time never mattered when she died they gave me her clock
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Bush has not read enough books to have a developed moral sense. The fewer books you read, the easier it is to become fundamental. In some ways my antiwar stand here is also a stand on anti-literacy. Someone should get G.W. into a reading program, get him to join a book club. Have him read Hamlet, King Lear.
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Nervous means you want to play. Scared means you don't want to play.
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My father was a basketball player, so I loved basketball because he did. It was a direct transference. But, more than that, basketball, in the United States at least, plays the same function that soccer does everyone else in the world. It's the sport of poverty. It's the sport born of poverty. It's the cheapest sport.
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You want the good life? You live where white people live, you go to school where white people go to school, and you shop where white people shop.
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Every movie is a road movie. Every novel is a mystery. Every tortilla chip is sacred.
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Summer coming like a car from down the highway.
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And believe me, a good piece of chicken can make anybody believe in the existence of God.
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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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At the halfway point of any drunken night, there is a moment when an Indian realizes he cannot turn back toward tradition and that he has no map to guide him toward the future.
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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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Like any good shaman, professional baseball player, or politician, my mother always answered questions with questions.
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