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When you resort to violence to prove a point, you’ve just experienced a profound failure of imagination.

Sherman Alexie

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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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Violence
Imagination
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Resorts
Experienced
Profound
Prove
Failure

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