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I ain't interested in the truth. I'm interested in the way things should be.
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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[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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If you teach kids how to tell stories, they have a better chance at everything.
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It's a weird thing. Reservations were meant to be prisons, you know? Indians were supposed to move onto reservations and die. We were supposed to disappear. But somehow or another, Indians have forgotten the reservations were meant to be death camps.
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