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If one reads enough books, one has a fighting chance.

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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Reads
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Fighting
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Enough

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Books and beer are the best and worst defense.
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Every movie is a road movie. Every novel is a mystery. Every tortilla chip is sacred.
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Religious fundamentalists are unaware that freedom of religion necessarily brings with it the freedom to mock religion.
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Ialways think it's funny when Indians celebrate Thanksgiving. I mean, sure, the Indians and Pilgrims were best friends during the first Thanksgiving, but a few years later, the Pilgrims were shooting Indians. So I'm never quite sure why we eat Turkey like everybody else. (101)
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And I couldn't make fun of her for that dream. It was my dream, too. And Indian boys weren't supposed to dream like that. And white girls from small towns weren't supposed to dream big, either. We were supposed to be happy with our limitations. But there was no way Penelope and I were going to sit still. Nope, we both wanted to fly.
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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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He wanted the songs, the stories, to save everybody.
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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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If you teach kids how to tell stories, they have a better chance at everything.
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In the middle of the night, when you're ambiguously ethnic, like me, when you're brown, beige, mauve, siena, one of those lighter browns in the Crayola box. You have to be careful of the cops and robbers, because nobody's quite sure what you are, but everybody has assumptions.
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My father was always depressed. When he was home and sober, he was mostly in his room.
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I've learned that the worst thing a parent can do is ignore their children
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White Americans have a short memory.
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They put me in a holding cell with a black kid and a white kid and a Chinese kid. We're the United Nations of juvenile delinquents.
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