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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: 57
Born: 1966
Born: October 7
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Sherman Joseph Alexie
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A lot of people have no idea that right now Y.A. (young adult). is the Garden of Eden of literature.
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If you're good at it, and you love it, and it helps you navigate the river of the world, then it can't be wrong.
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I think the world is a series of broken dams and floods, and my cartoons are tiny little lifeboats.
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If I wasn't writing poems I'd be washing my hands all the time.
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In the middle of a crazy and drunk life, you have to hang onto the good and sober moments tightly.
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I think a lot of Indians want Indian artists to be cultural cheerleaders rather than cultural investigators.
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I write books for teenagers because I vividly remember what it felt like to be a teen facing everyday and epic dangers. I don't write to protect them. It's far too late for that. I write to give them weapons-in the form of words and ideas-that will help them fight their monsters. I write in blood because I remember what it felt like to bleed.
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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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Everybody likes to have a place to think, to meditate, to eat a burrito.
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Nervous means you want to play. Scared means you don't want to play.
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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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We're all travelling heavy with illusions.
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If one reads enough books, one has a fighting chance.
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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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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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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 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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When you're depressed, you know, it's like the world has ended. Even getting out of bed takes the most massive amount of effort. But when you're manic, oh, it's so addicting. You know, I have finished novels in two weeks in manic stages.
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...there are some children who aren't really children at all, they're just pillars of flame that burn everything they touch. And there are some children who are just pillars of ash, that fall apart when you touch them... ~ Thomas Builds-the-Fire (played by Evan Adams) in Alexie's Smoke Signals
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Estranged from the tribe that gives no protection, What happens to the soul that hates its reflection?
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