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If it's fiction, then it better be true.
Sherman Alexie
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Sherman Alexie
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: October 7
Film Director
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Wellpinit
Washington
Sherman Joseph Alexie
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I used to think the world was broken down by tribes, I said. By black and white. By Indian and white. But I know that isn't true. The world is only broken into two tribes: The people who are assholes and the people who are not.
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If I wasn't writing poems I'd be washing my hands all the time.
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