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The ordinary can be like medicine.
Sherman Alexie
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Sherman Alexie
Age: 57
Born: 1966
Born: October 7
Film Director
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Washington
Sherman Joseph Alexie
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Read. Read 1000 pages for every 1 page that you write.
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I was a controversial figure on my reservation when I was a kid. I was mouthy and opinionated and arrogant. Nothing has changed.
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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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I recognize now that the conditions that Indians are living in are the conditions that poor people everywhere are living in.
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Sixty percent of all Indians live in urban areas, but nobody's writing about them. They're really an underrepresented population, and the ironic thing is very, very few of those we call Native American writers actually grew up on reservations, and yet most of their work is about reservations.
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I think all of us are always five years old in the presence and absence of our parents.
Sherman Alexie
She was in pain and I loved her, sort of loved her, I guess, so I kind of had to love her pain, too.
Sherman Alexie
My school and my tribe are so poor and sad that we have to study from the same dang books our parents studied from. That is absolutely the saddest thing in the world.
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Don't live up to your stereotypes.
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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.
Sherman Alexie
Estranged from the tribe that gives no protection, What happens to the soul that hates its reflection?
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Everybody likes to have a place to think, to meditate, to eat a burrito.
Sherman Alexie
In a real-world way, my gifts are very limited in terms of what I can do.
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Ialways think it's funny when Indians celebrate Thanksgiving. I mean, sure, the Indians and Pilgrims were best friends during the first Thanksgiving, but a few years later, the Pilgrims were shooting Indians. So I'm never quite sure why we eat Turkey like everybody else. (101)
Sherman Alexie
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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I know I'll keep writing poems. That's the constant. I don't know about novels. They're hard. It takes so much concentrated effort. When I'm writing a novel it's pretty much all I can do. I get bored. It takes months. Movies do the same thing. It's all-encompassing. It feels like I'm going to end up writing poems, short stories and screenplays.
Sherman Alexie
I write books for teenagers because I vividly remember what it felt like to be a teen facing everyday and epic dangers. I don't write to protect them. It's far too late for that. I write to give them weapons-in the form of words and ideas-that will help them fight their monsters. I write in blood because I remember what it felt like to bleed.
Sherman Alexie
If I wasn't writing poems I'd be washing my hands all the time.
Sherman Alexie
It's not oil that runs the world, it's shame.
Sherman Alexie
We are taught to take the bread into our bodies as proof of Jesus's body.
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