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Estranged from the tribe that gives no protection, What happens to the soul that hates its reflection?
Sherman Alexie
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Sherman Alexie
Age: 57
Born: 1966
Born: October 7
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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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Nervous means you want to play. Scared means you don't want to play.
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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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I look more Indian when I'm serious.
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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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I had the feeling I was going to be successful, and I didn't want to be another disappointing Indian.
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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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Unlike landed white men, she didn't need to climb mountains to experience mystic panic. All she needed was to set her alarm dock for the next morning, wake when it rang, and go to class.
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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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[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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I'm not a pacifist by any measure, but I'm also fully aware that the reasons I might go to war could be very dubious.
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When it comes to death, we know that laughter and tears are pretty much the same thing.
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All I owe the world is my art.
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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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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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