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White Americans have a short memory.

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Sherman Alexie
Age: 57
Born: 1966
Born: October 7
Film Director
Film Producer
Novelist
Poet
Screenwriter
Writer
Wellpinit
Washington
Sherman Joseph Alexie
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Americans
Short
Memories
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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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Life is a constant struggle between being an individual and being a member of the community.
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The problem is that too many adults think their kids' lives are simple, or they try to make their lives simple, when their emotional lives are just as complicated as ours. They might have a few less tools to deal with it because they're young, but the emotions are all the same, and the subject matter is all the same.
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Everybody likes to have a place to think, to meditate, to eat a burrito.
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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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At the halfway point of any drunken night, there is a moment when an Indian realizes he cannot turn back toward tradition and that he has no map to guide him toward the future.
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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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Spiritual matters should be private.
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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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You know, people speak in poetry all the time. They just don't realize it.
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I used to sleep with my books in piles all over my bed and sometimes they were the only thing keeping me warm and always the only thing keeping me alive. Books are the best and worst defense.
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My parents banned nothing, though the Christian fundamentalists in my tribe held book-and-record burnings every now and again. So, yes, fundamentalist assholes can also be brown-skinned.
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I love to scare the already terrified assholes.
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