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I look more Indian when I'm serious.

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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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Indian
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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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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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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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In the middle of a crazy and drunk life, you have to hang onto the good and sober moments tightly.
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You know, people speak in poetry all the time. They just don't realize it.
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I wanted to do a weird book and reestablish my independent, small-press roots.
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Books and beer are the best and worst defense.
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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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In high school I dated a white woman. She would come to visit me on the rez. And her dad, who was very racist, didn't like that at all. And he told her one time, 'You shouldn't go on the rez if you're white because Indians have a lot of anger in their heart.'
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Listen you have to read a book three times before you know it.
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Summer coming like a car from down the highway.
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I realized that I might be a lonely Indian boy, but I was not alone in the loneliness. There were millions of other Americans who had left their birthplaces in search of a dream. (217)
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My only purpose is to teach children to rebel against authority figures.
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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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Everyone I have lost in the closing of a door the click of the lock is not forgotten, they do not die but remain within the soft edges of the earth, the ash of house fires and cancer in sin and forgiveness huddled under old blankets dreaming their way into my hands, my heart closing tight like fists. - Indian Boy Love Song #1
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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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There are all kinds of addicts, I guess. We all have pain. And we all look for ways to make the pain go away. (107)
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He looked into the crowd for approval, saw his mother and father. He waved and they waved back. Smiles and Indian teeth. They were both drunk. Everything familiar and welcome. Everything beautiful.
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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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