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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
Books
Fighting
Chance
Book
Enough

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He wanted the songs, the stories, to save everybody.
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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 think all of us are always five years old in the presence and absence of our parents.
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You want the good life? You live where white people live, you go to school where white people go to school, and you shop where white people shop.
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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 had the feeling I was going to be successful, and I didn't want to be another disappointing Indian.
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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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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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The poetry, if you will, of life is reduced to this sort of dry, scientific, you know, it's the worst sort of précis of who we are.
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Every movie is a road movie. Every novel is a mystery. Every tortilla chip is sacred.
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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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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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Nervous means you want to play. Scared means you don't want to play.
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I was a controversial figure on my reservation when I was a kid. I was mouthy and opinionated and arrogant. Nothing has changed.
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I suddenly understood that if every moment of a book should be taken seriously, then every moment of a life should be taken seriously as well.
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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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If I wasn't writing poems I'd be washing my hands all the time.
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We all have to find our own ways to say good-bye.
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