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We lived in a small house, so there was no escape from the goddamn racket of her loneliness.
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Yes, I have often battled Grief. / Both of us used our teeth.
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But my grandmother wanted us to forgive her murderer.
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All art is exploitation.
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I know that death is never added to death; it multiplies.
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I learned how to stop crying.I learned how to hide inside of myself.
I learned how to be somebody else.
I learned how to be cold and numb. — Sherman Alexie
I was emotionally erect.
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Mary was a bright and shining star," Mr. P said. "And then she faded year by year until you could barely see her anymore.
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I'm a freak with power.
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She wanted to be buried in a coffin filled with used paperbacks.
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She was so white his reservation eyes suffered.
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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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Listen. I don't know how or when My grieving will end, but I'm always
Relearning how to be human again. — Sherman Alexie
There's never enough time to change your life. You don't get to change your life, period.
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And if God hadn't wanted us to masturbate, then God wouldn't have given us thumbs. So I thank God for my thumbs.
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Nothing ever really happens, you know. Life is infinitesimal and incremental and inconsequential.
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Like any good shaman, professional baseball player, or politician, my mother always answered questions with questions.
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Naked women + right hand = happy happy joy joy
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Surrounded by five hundred years of convenient lies.
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Whites and Indians laughed at most of the same jokes, but they laughed for different reasons.
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one ponders. And when one ponders, one creates theories - hypotheses, to explain the world.
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I'm quite aware of my differences. I wouldn't classify them as weird
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Imagine Columbus landed in 1492 and some tribe or another drowned him in the ocean. Would Lester FallsApart still be shoplifting in the 7-11?
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Nostalgia is always doomed and dooming.
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Do you know why the Indian rain dances always worked? Because the Indians would keep dancing until it rained.
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Gay people could do anything. They were like Swiss army knives.
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She went searching for her dreams, and she didn't find them, but she made the attempt.
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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 wasn't just defending myself. I was defending Indians, black people, and buffalo.
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He was the loser Indian father of a loser Indian son living in a world built for winners.
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In all those stories, I could fly.
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Jeez, it was a lot of pressure to put on a kid. I was carrying the burden of my race, you know? I was going to get a bad back from it.
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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 grew up in a storytelling culture, a tribal culture, but also in an American storytelling culture.
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My wife was the first romantic partner who understood both American and native parts of me - not so much the positive stuff, but the damage.
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The ordinary can be like medicine.
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And that's when I knew that I was going to be okay.
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F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote that the sign of a superior mind is the ability to hold two opposing ideas at the same time.
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Books and beer are the best and worst defense.
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We only know how to lose and be lost.
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I knew I was being an idiot. But I figured if I kept being an idiot, if I didn't actually accept the truth, then the truth would become false.
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Adam and Eve covered their privates with fig leaves; the first Indians covered their privates with their tiny hands.
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In this world, we must love the liars or go unloved
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Because I want to be remembered.
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Nothing as white as the white girl an Indian boy loves.
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Everybody prayed; everybody lied about it. Even atheists prayed on airplanes and bingo nights.
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So I draw because I feel like it might be my only real chance to escape the reservation.
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He said his prayers just in case his parents had been wrong about God all those years.
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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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My name is Sherman J. Alexie Jr., and I am an insomniac.
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Spiritual matters should be private.
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Son," Mr. P said. "You're going to find more and more hope the farther and farther you walk away from this sad, sad, sad reservation.
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Certainly I'm angry at the way Indians have been treated and continue to be treated. But I don't think it's a helpless emotion.
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Is God a man or a woman?God could be an armadillo. I have no idea. — Sherman Alexie
Like a good Indian, he knew when to talk and when to remain silent. Like a good Indian, he knew there was never a good time to talk.
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Sure, we thought the acresThat we tilled were sacred,
But how could we have known
That wheat can haunt like ghosts — Sherman Alexie
Yep, I have to admit that isosceles triangles make me feel hormonal.
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He likes to pretend he lives inside the comic books. I guess a fake life inside a cartoon is a lot better than his real life.
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Poetry = Anger x Imagination
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Last night I dreamed about television. I woke up crying.
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I didn't know what to do or say, so I just sat as quietly as he did. The silence got so big and real that it felt like three people sat on the porch.
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Had she been hanging on to her dream of being a writer, but only barely hanging on, and something made her let go?
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What scares me least? The Afterlife. Really. Who cares? I'm going to be a good person no matter what is supposed to happen after I die.
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We're all travelling heavy with illusions.
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I'm a poet who can whine in meter
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There isn't a lot of poverty literature in the young-adult world. And I don't know why that is, but I think certainly I felt a gap.
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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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Because I'm an American, I know there's all sorts of international folks who would gladly kidnap and behead me.
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If you weren't good for making food, shelter, or babies, then you were tossed out on your own.
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It's not oil that runs the world, it's shame.
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Regarding love, marriage, and sex, both Shakespeare and Sitting Bull knew the only truth: treaties get broken.
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It's not whether you win or lose, it's about how you play the game.
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But the real interesting stuff is in the cellar and the attic.
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When you construct a mix tape, the first song you come out with has to be a barnburner.
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I was young and frightened and craved respect and its ugly cousin, approval, so I did as I was told.
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Here's the score. Once a thing tastes blood, it will come for more.
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You'd never know it from reading the rest of the Native writers, but Indians actually grew up with American pop culture.
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And I laughed because half of me was happy and half of me wasn't sure what else to do.
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White Americans have a short memory.
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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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Let us now celebrate the literary allusion.
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He sang 'Stairway to Heaven' in four different languages but never knew where that staircase stood.
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A bullet only costs about two cents, and anybody can afford that.
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He made me realize that hard workthat the act of finishing, of completing, of accomplishing a task
is joyous — Sherman Alexie
Coach said. "the quality of a man's life is in direct proportion to his commitment to excellence, regardless of his chosen field of endeavor".
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I look more Indian when I'm serious.
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