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What if someone picks on me? I asked Then I'll pick on them. What if someone picks my nose? I asked. The I'll pick your nose, too Rowdy said.

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Sherman Alexie
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: October 7
Film Director
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Sherman Joseph Alexie
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I don't know what any individual should do about crossing her own borders. I only know that I live a happier, more adventurous life, by crossing borders.
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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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When you resort to violence to prove a point, you’ve just experienced a profound failure of imagination.
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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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If I wasn't writing poems I'd be washing my hands all the time.
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And I couldn't make fun of her for that dream. It was my dream, too. And Indian boys weren't supposed to dream like that. And white girls from small towns weren't supposed to dream big, either. We were supposed to be happy with our limitations. But there was no way Penelope and I were going to sit still. Nope, we both wanted to fly.
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I wanted to do a weird book and reestablish my independent, small-press roots.
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The ordinary can be like medicine.
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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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That's one more thing people don't know about Indians: We love to talk dirty.
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All I owe the world is my art.
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I hear poetry whenever I turn on the radio. Eminem is a better poet than just about everybody. He's better than Billy Collins he's better than Richard Wilbur he's better than me.
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I'm quite aware of my differences. I wouldn't classify them as weird
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I got hundreds of emails insulting me, accusing me of being some caveman. I am by no means a Luddite. I have two iPods. I have a cell phone. I have cable TV, HDTV!
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Summer coming like a car from down the highway.
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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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Is revenge a circle inside of a circle inside of a circle?
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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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We are taught to take the bread into our bodies as proof of Jesus's body.
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I'm a poet who can whine in meter
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