“If you let people into your life a little bit, they can be pretty damn amazing.”
Author detail
Sherman J. Alexie, Jr., was born in October 1966. A Spokane/Coeur d'Alene Indian, he grew up on the Spokane Indian Reservation in Wellpinit, WA, about 50 miles northwest of Spokane, WA. Alexie has published 18 books to date. Alexie is an award-winning and prolific author and occasional comedian. Much of his writing draws on his experiences as a modern Native American. Sherman's best known works include The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven, Smoke Signals, and The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian. He lives in Seattle, Washington
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“If you let people into your life a little bit, they can be pretty damn amazing.”
“He loved her, of course, but better than that, he chose her, day after day. Choice: that was the thing.”
“What kind of life can you have in a house without books?”
“I used to think the world was broken down by tribes,' I said. 'By Black and White. By Indian and White. But I know this isn't true. The world is only broken into two tribes: the people who a...”
“It's not oil that runs the world, it's shame.”
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“And believe me, a good piece of chicken can make anybody believe in the existence of God.”
“The ordinary can be like medicine.”
“Poetry = Anger x Imagination”
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“When it comes to death, we know that laughter and tears are pretty much the same thing. And so, laughing and crying, we said good-bye to my grandmother. And when we said goodbye to one grand...”
“When it comes to death, we know that laughter and tears are pretty much the same thing.”
“So I heard the boom of my father's rifle when he shot my best friend. A bullet only costs about two cents, and anybody can afford that.”
“As a child, I read because books–violent and not, blasphemous and not, terrifying and not–were the most loving and trustworthy things in my life. I read widely, and loved plenty of the class...”
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“If it's fiction, then it better be true.”
“Do you understand how amazing it is to hear that from an adult? Do you know how amazing it is to hear that from anybody? It's one of the simplest sentences in the world, just four words, but...”
“Your past is a skeleton walking one step behind you, and your future is a a skeleton walking one step in front of you. Maybe you don't wear a watch, but your skeletons do, and they always kn...”
“The world even the smallest parts of it, is filled with things you don’t know.”
“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 romanti...”
“Teenagers read millions of books every year. They read for entertainment and for education. They read because of school assignments and pop culture fads. And there are millions of teens who...”
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“I don't know what any individual should do about crossing her own borders. I only know that I live a happier, more adventurous life, by crossing borders.”
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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 Nati...”
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