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The form I most enjoy writing is the sonnet or sonnet-like forms, where you have a - you know, three stanzas or two stanzas that lead into a concluding couplet.

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Sherman Alexie
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: October 7
Film Director
Film Producer
Novelist
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Wellpinit
Washington
Sherman Joseph Alexie
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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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In a real-world way, my gifts are very limited in terms of what I can do.
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If it's fiction, then it better be true.
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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 hear poetry whenever I turn on the radio. Eminem is a better poet than just about everybody. He's better than Billy Collins he's better than Richard Wilbur he's better than me.
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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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The world is divided by two different tribes. The people who are assholes and the people who are not.
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Nervous means you want to play. Scared means you don't want to play.
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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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I think all of us are always five years old in the presence and absence of our parents.
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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 think the world is a series of broken dams and floods, and my cartoons are tiny little lifeboats.
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And believe me, a good piece of chicken can make anybody believe in the existence of God.
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Summer coming like a car from down the highway.
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Read. Read 1000 pages for every 1 page that you write.
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We all have to find our own ways to say good-bye.
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Every movie is a road movie. Every novel is a mystery. Every tortilla chip is sacred.
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