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All I owe the world is my art.

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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Art
Writing
World

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You know, people speak in poetry all the time. They just don't realize it.
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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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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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Books and beer are the best and worst defense.
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I recognize now that the conditions that Indians are living in are the conditions that poor people everywhere are living in.
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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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Spiritual matters should be private.
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I've come to the point in my life where I encourage young Native Americans to become much more selfish about their personal needs and wants.
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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 write in blood because I remember what it felt like to bleed.
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I write books for teenagers because I vividly remember what it felt like to be a teen facing everyday and epic dangers. I don't write to protect them. It's far too late for that. I write to give them weapons-in the form of words and ideas-that will help them fight their monsters. I write in blood because I remember what it felt like to bleed.
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Only in rock music and the literary world you see so many ugly white guys with beautiful women. That says a lot about the women, their character. They're attracted to more than surface.
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Unlike landed white men, she didn't need to climb mountains to experience mystic panic. All she needed was to set her alarm dock for the next morning, wake when it rang, and go to class.
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she braided my sister's hair with hands that smelled deep roots buried in the earth she told me the old stories how time never mattered when she died they gave me her clock
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I'm quite aware of my differences. I wouldn't classify them as weird
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Listen you have to read a book three times before you know it.
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Life is a constant struggle between being an individual and being a member of the community.
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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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I ain't interested in the truth. I'm interested in the way things should be.
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He loved her, of course, but better than that, he chose her, day after day. Choice: that was the thing.
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