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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: 58
Born: 1966
Born: October 7
Film Director
Film Producer
Novelist
Poet
Screenwriter
Writer
Wellpinit
Washington
Sherman Joseph Alexie
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Interested
Truth
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I used to think the world was broken down by tribes, I said. By black and white. By Indian and white. But I know that isn't true. The world is only broken into two tribes: The people who are assholes and the people who are not.
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She was in pain and I loved her, sort of loved her, I guess, so I kind of had to love her pain, too.
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Yep, my daddy was an undependable drunk. But he'd never missed any of my organized games, concerts, plays, or picnics. He may not have loved me perfectly, but he loved me as well as he could. (189)
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Summer coming like a car from down the highway.
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I didn't know what to say to her. What do you say to people when they ask how it feels to lose everything? When every planet in your solar system has exploded?
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The ordinary can be like medicine.
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My school and my tribe are so poor and sad that we have to study from the same dang books our parents studied from. That is absolutely the saddest thing in the world.
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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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[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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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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Nobody recognizes that a bookstore or library can also be a drowning polar bear. And in this country [US], magazines, newspapers, and bookstores are drowning polar bears. And if people can't see that or don't want to talk about it, I don't understand them at all.
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All art is exploitation.
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I don't have to participate in another culture's ceremonies in order to respect that culture.
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Let us now celebrate the literary allusion.
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I recognize now that the conditions that Indians are living in are the conditions that poor people everywhere are living in.
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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've learned that the worst thing a parent can do is ignore their children
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Everybody likes to have a place to think, to meditate, to eat a burrito.
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Your past is a skeleton walking one step behind you, and your future is a a skeleton walking one step in front of you. Maybe you don't wear a watch, but your skeletons do, and they always know what time it is.
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We're all travelling heavy with illusions.
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