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Let us now celebrate the literary allusion.

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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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Allusion
Literary
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My school and my tribe are so poor and sad that we have to study from the same dang books our parents studied from. That is absolutely the saddest thing in the world.
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Yep, my daddy was an undependable drunk. But he'd never missed any of my organized games, concerts, plays, or picnics. He may not have loved me perfectly, but he loved me as well as he could. (189)
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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 got hundreds of emails insulting me, accusing me of being some caveman. I am by no means a Luddite. I have two iPods. I have a cell phone. I have cable TV, HDTV!
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My father was a basketball player, so I loved basketball because he did. It was a direct transference. But, more than that, basketball, in the United States at least, plays the same function that soccer does everyone else in the world. It's the sport of poverty. It's the sport born of poverty. It's the cheapest sport.
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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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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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If one reads enough books, one has a fighting chance.
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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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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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He made me realize that hard work--that the act of finishing, of completing, of accomplishing a task--is joyous
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If a parent doesn't want his/her child to read a book then there is always an alternative text to read. But the book banners want to control what every child reads.
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But we danced, under wigs and between unfinished walls, through broken promises and around empty cupboards.
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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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She was in pain and I loved her, sort of loved her, I guess, so I kind of had to love her pain, too.
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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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If I wasn't writing poems I'd be washing my hands all the time.
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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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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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Listen you have to read a book three times before you know it.
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