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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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Fiction
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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 only purpose is to teach children to rebel against authority figures.
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We can all learn from every text. Reading the work that disgusts you can only strengthen your core beliefs. I could teach a semester-long course based only on reading the local telephone book. All stories can be taught in valuable ways.
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That's one more thing people don't know about Indians: We love to talk dirty.
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Is revenge a circle inside of a circle inside of a circle?
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I used to sleep with my books in piles all over my bed and sometimes they were the only thing keeping me warm and always the only thing keeping me alive. Books are the best and worst defense.
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They put me in a holding cell with a black kid and a white kid and a Chinese kid. We're the United Nations of juvenile delinquents.
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Everybody likes to have a place to think, to meditate, to eat a burrito.
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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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I ain't interested in the truth. I'm interested in the way things should be.
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If you teach kids how to tell stories, they have a better chance at everything.
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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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And believe me, a good piece of chicken can make anybody believe in the existence of God.
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I drew because words were too unpredictable. (5)
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Listen you have to read a book three times before you know it.
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Bush has not read enough books to have a developed moral sense. The fewer books you read, the easier it is to become fundamental. In some ways my antiwar stand here is also a stand on anti-literacy. Someone should get G.W. into a reading program, get him to join a book club. Have him read Hamlet, King Lear.
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Read. Read 1000 pages for every 1 page that you write.
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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.
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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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I look more Indian when I'm serious.
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