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Facebook and Twitter and these other social sites bring every, I mean, 140 characters. I mean, I'm on Twitter and I have fun. But I don't think anybody learns anything about me as a person.

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Sherman Alexie
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: October 7
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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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I felt so conflicted about having fled the rez as a kid that I created a whole literary career that left me there.
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My only purpose is to teach children to rebel against authority figures.
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Read. Read 1000 pages for every 1 page that you write.
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Sixty percent of all Indians live in urban areas, but nobody's writing about them. They're really an underrepresented population, and the ironic thing is very, very few of those we call Native American writers actually grew up on reservations, and yet most of their work is about reservations.
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I think a lot of Indians want Indian artists to be cultural cheerleaders rather than cultural investigators.
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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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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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Every movie is a road movie. Every novel is a mystery. Every tortilla chip is sacred.
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I didn't know what to say to her. What do you say to people when they ask how it feels to lose everything? When every planet in your solar system has exploded?
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All art is exploitation.
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Nervous means you want to play. Scared means you don't want to play.
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Estranged from the tribe that gives no protection, What happens to the soul that hates its reflection?
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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 had the feeling I was going to be successful, and I didn't want to be another disappointing Indian.
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We are taught to take the bread into our bodies as proof of Jesus's body.
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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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Sometimes it's called passing out and sometimes it's just pretending to be asleep
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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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[F]rank knew he was guilty of arrogance and misanthropy, but he compensated by being kind to strangers and tipping really well at restaurants.
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