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Every movie is a road movie. Every novel is a mystery. Every tortilla chip is sacred.
Sherman Alexie
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Sherman Alexie
Age: 57
Born: 1966
Born: October 7
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Wellpinit
Washington
Sherman Joseph Alexie
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We can all learn from every text. Reading the work that disgusts you can only strengthen your core beliefs. I could teach a semester-long course based only on reading the local telephone book. All stories can be taught in valuable ways.
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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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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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The ordinary can be like medicine.
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You want the good life? You live where white people live, you go to school where white people go to school, and you shop where white people shop.
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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 don't have to participate in another culture's ceremonies in order to respect that culture.
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I end up feeling like a spy in the house of ethnicity, you know? Because people will talk around me as they would talk around the people in their cultural group. So I get to hear all the secrets and jokes and you know, I'm a part of every community because of the way I look.
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I look more Indian when I'm serious.
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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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All art is exploitation.
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If you teach kids how to tell stories, they have a better chance at everything.
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I guess a witness is all I am. I think as a writer, you're pretty removed. Writing is a very selfish, individualistic pursuit. So in that sense I'm a witness because I'm not participating.
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I wanted to do a weird book and reestablish my independent, small-press roots.
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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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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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If it's fiction, then it better be true.
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When it comes to death, we know that laughter and tears are pretty much the same thing.
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I used to think the world was broken down by tribes, I said. By black and white. By Indian and white. But I know that isn't true. The world is only broken into two tribes: The people who are assholes and the people who are not.
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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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