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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
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Wellpinit
Washington
Sherman Joseph Alexie
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Fiction
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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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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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He looked into the crowd for approval, saw his mother and father. He waved and they waved back. Smiles and Indian teeth. They were both drunk. Everything familiar and welcome. Everything beautiful.
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When you resort to violence to prove a point, you’ve just experienced a profound failure of imagination.
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I've learned that the worst thing a parent can do is ignore their children
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When I had no money, and a great book came out, I couldn't get it. I had to wait. I love the idea that I have hardcover books here and at home that I haven't read yet. That's how I view that I'm rich. I have hardcover books I may never read.
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Religious fundamentalists are unaware that freedom of religion necessarily brings with it the freedom to mock religion.
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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 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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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 wanted to do a weird book and reestablish my independent, small-press roots.
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I drew because words were too unpredictable. (5)
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I write in blood because I remember what it felt like to bleed.
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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)
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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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If one reads enough books, one has a fighting chance.
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it's way too early for him to be talking anyhow but I see in his eyes something and I see in his eyes a voice and I see in his eyes a whole new set of words
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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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Do you understand how amazing it is to hear that from an adult? Do you know how amazing it is to hear that from anybody? It's one of the simplest sentences in the world, just four words, but they're the four hugest words in the world when they're put together. You can do it.
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I'm quite aware of my differences. I wouldn't classify them as weird
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