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Sherman Alexie

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That's the whole point of life, you know? To meet new people.


— Sherman Alexie


#meet #new-people #life

It's not oil that runs the world, it's shame.


— Sherman Alexie


#racial-politics #social-commentary #political-philosophy

The ordinary can be like medicine.


— Sherman Alexie


#medicine

...And nostalgia is a cancer. Nostalgia will fill your heart up with tumors. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's what you are. You're just an old fart dying of terminal nostalgia.


— Sherman Alexie


#nostalgia

Like officer Dave.He's never said much about his life, but I can tell he's scarred. And he knows I'm scarred too. The wounded always recognize the wounded. We can smell each other.


— Sherman Alexie


#mankind #life

Summer coming like a car from down the highway.


— Sherman Alexie


#nature

They put me in a holding cell with a black kid and a white kid and a Chinese kid. We're the United Nations of juvenile delinquents.


— Sherman Alexie


#humor

What if someone picks on me?" I asked Then I'll pick on them". What if someone picks my nose?" I asked. The I'll pick your nose, too" Rowdy said.


— Sherman Alexie


#friendship

Seems like the cold would never go away and winter would be like the bottom of my feet but then it is gone in one night and in its place comes the sun so large and laughable.


— Sherman Alexie


#nature

Like any good shaman, professional baseball player, or politician, my mother always answered questions with questions.


— Sherman Alexie


#baseball






About Sherman Alexie

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Did you know about Sherman Alexie?

The pressure of succeeding in college became too much for Alexie and he began drinking heavily to cope. He excelled at school and became a star player on the basketball team which was coincidentally called the Reardan High Indians. While in the short story collection they were in their teens Reservation Blues show the boys in their thirties.

Sherman Joseph Alexie Jr. (born October 7 1966) is a poet writer filmmaker and comedian.

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