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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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Better
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When you're depressed, you know, it's like the world has ended. Even getting out of bed takes the most massive amount of effort. But when you're manic, oh, it's so addicting. You know, I have finished novels in two weeks in manic stages.
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I felt so conflicted about having fled the rez as a kid that I created a whole literary career that left me there.
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He loved her, of course, but better than that, he chose her, day after day. Choice: that was the thing.
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My parents banned nothing, though the Christian fundamentalists in my tribe held book-and-record burnings every now and again. So, yes, fundamentalist assholes can also be brown-skinned.
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[F]rank knew he was guilty of arrogance and misanthropy, but he compensated by being kind to strangers and tipping really well at restaurants.
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If you're good at it, and you love it, and it helps you navigate the river of the world, then it can't be wrong.
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Everybody likes to have a place to think, to meditate, to eat a burrito.
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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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and then she asks me how many sexual partners I've had and I say one or two depending on your definition of what I did to Custer . . .
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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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My father was always depressed. When he was home and sober, he was mostly in his room.
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I grabbed my book and opened it up. I wanted to smell it. Heck, I wanted to kiss it. Yes, kiss it. That's right, I am a book kisser. Maybe that's kind of perverted or maybe it's just romantic and highly intelligent.
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I had the feeling I was going to be successful, and I didn't want to be another disappointing Indian.
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There are all kinds of addicts, I guess. We all have pain. And we all look for ways to make the pain go away. (107)
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And I couldn't make fun of her for that dream. It was my dream, too. And Indian boys weren't supposed to dream like that. And white girls from small towns weren't supposed to dream big, either. We were supposed to be happy with our limitations. But there was no way Penelope and I were going to sit still. Nope, we both wanted to fly.
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Estranged from the tribe that gives no protection, What happens to the soul that hates its reflection?
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I'm quite aware of my differences. I wouldn't classify them as weird
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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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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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