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Everybody likes to have a place to think, to meditate, to eat a burrito.

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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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Shelter
Likes
Everybody
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Think
Burrito
Thinking
Burritos
Asylums
Meditate

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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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Poverty doesn’t give you strength or teach you lessons about perseverance. No, poverty only teaches you how to be poor.
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That's one more thing people don't know about Indians: We love to talk dirty.
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I think all of us are always five years old in the presence and absence of our parents.
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We all have to find our own ways to say good-bye.
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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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All art is exploitation.
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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 quite aware of my differences. I wouldn't classify them as weird
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But we danced, under wigs and between unfinished walls, through broken promises and around empty cupboards.
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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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Life is a constant struggle between being an individual and being a member of the community.
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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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I look more Indian when I'm serious.
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