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He wanted the songs, the stories, to save everybody.
Sherman Alexie
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Sherman Alexie
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: October 7
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Washington
Sherman Joseph Alexie
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I love to scare the already terrified assholes.
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Sixty percent of all Indians live in urban areas, but nobody's writing about them. They're really an underrepresented population, and the ironic thing is very, very few of those we call Native American writers actually grew up on reservations, and yet most of their work is about reservations.
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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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Like officer Dave.He's never said much about his life, but I can tell he's scarred. And he knows I'm scarred too. The wounded always recognize the wounded. We can smell each other.
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Don't live up to your stereotypes.
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If one reads enough books, one has a fighting chance.
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If you teach kids how to tell stories, they have a better chance at everything.
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He made me realize that hard work--that the act of finishing, of completing, of accomplishing a task--is joyous
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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 think all of us are always five years old in the presence and absence of our parents.
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Do you understand how amazing it is to hear that from an adult? Do you know how amazing it is to hear that from anybody? It's one of the simplest sentences in the world, just four words, but they're the four hugest words in the world when they're put together. You can do it.
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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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In a sense, you're always mythologizing your life it's always an effort to make yourself epic. At least in fiction you can lie and sort of justify your delusion about your epicness. But when you're writing a memoir, you're trying to make your life epic and it's not - nobody's life is.
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Life is a constant struggle between being an individual and being a member of the community.
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I hear poetry whenever I turn on the radio. Eminem is a better poet than just about everybody. He's better than Billy Collins he's better than Richard Wilbur he's better than me.
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I grabbed my book and opened it up. I wanted to smell it. Heck, I wanted to kiss it. Yes, kiss it. That's right, I am a book kisser. Maybe that's kind of perverted or maybe it's just romantic and highly intelligent.
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and then she asks me how many sexual partners I've had and I say one or two depending on your definition of what I did to Custer . . .
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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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I wanted to do a weird book and reestablish my independent, small-press roots.
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I'm quite aware of my differences. I wouldn't classify them as weird
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