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If it's fiction, then it better be true.

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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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True
Better
Fiction

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Every movie is a road movie. Every novel is a mystery. Every tortilla chip is sacred.
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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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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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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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Yep, my daddy was an undependable drunk. But he'd never missed any of my organized games, concerts, plays, or picnics. He may not have loved me perfectly, but he loved me as well as he could. (189)
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I've learned that the worst thing a parent can do is ignore their children
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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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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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Nervous means you want to play. Scared means you don't want to play.
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We all have to find our own ways to say good-bye.
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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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Life is a constant struggle between being an individual and being a member of the community.
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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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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'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 officer Dave.He's never said much about his life, but I can tell he's scarred. And he knows I'm scarred too. The wounded always recognize the wounded. We can smell each other.
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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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I look more Indian when I'm serious.
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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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You know, people speak in poetry all the time. They just don't realize it.
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