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A lot of people have no idea that right now Y.A. (young adult). is the Garden of Eden of literature.

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Sherman Alexie
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: October 7
Film Director
Film Producer
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Wellpinit
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Sherman Joseph Alexie
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I write in blood because I remember what it felt like to bleed.
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I drew because words were too unpredictable. (5)
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All art is exploitation.
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When you resort to violence to prove a point, you’ve just experienced a profound failure of imagination.
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We're all travelling heavy with illusions.
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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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it's way too early for him to be talking anyhow but I see in his eyes something and I see in his eyes a voice and I see in his eyes a whole new set of words
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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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I'm not a pacifist by any measure, but I'm also fully aware that the reasons I might go to war could be very dubious.
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At the halfway point of any drunken night, there is a moment when an Indian realizes he cannot turn back toward tradition and that he has no map to guide him toward the future.
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The ordinary can be like medicine.
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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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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 love to scare the already terrified assholes.
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