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I write in blood because I remember what it felt like to bleed.

Sherman Alexie

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Sherman Alexie
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: October 7
Film Director
Film Producer
Novelist
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Sherman Joseph Alexie
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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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Books and beer are the best and worst defense.
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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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I ain't interested in the truth. I'm interested in the way things should be.
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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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I think all of us are always five years old in the presence and absence of our parents.
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You know, people speak in poetry all the time. They just don't realize it.
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I'm quite aware of my differences. I wouldn't classify them as weird
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In a real-world way, my gifts are very limited in terms of what I can do.
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Read. Read 1000 pages for every 1 page that you write.
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...there are some children who aren't really children at all, they're just pillars of flame that burn everything they touch. And there are some children who are just pillars of ash, that fall apart when you touch them... ~ Thomas Builds-the-Fire (played by Evan Adams) in Alexie's Smoke Signals
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Let us now celebrate the literary allusion.
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It's not oil that runs the world, it's shame.
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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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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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I think the world is a series of broken dams and floods, and my cartoons are tiny little lifeboats.
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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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Bush has not read enough books to have a developed moral sense. The fewer books you read, the easier it is to become fundamental. In some ways my antiwar stand here is also a stand on anti-literacy. Someone should get G.W. into a reading program, get him to join a book club. Have him read Hamlet, King Lear.
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Spiritual matters should be private.
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In the middle of a crazy and drunk life, you have to hang onto the good and sober moments tightly.
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