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My only purpose is to teach children to rebel against authority figures. ↗

— Sherman Alexie

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I grew up in a storytelling culture, a tribal culture, but also in an American storytelling culture. ↗

— Sherman Alexie

#american #culture #grew #i #storytelling

I thought I'd been condescended to as an Indian - that was nothing compared to the condescension for writing young adult literature. ↗

— Sherman Alexie

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My career means, if you're a non-Indian writing about Indians, at least there's one Indian in your rearview mirror. ↗

— Sherman Alexie

#career #indian #indians #least #means

No period of my life has been one of such unmixed happiness as the four years which have been spent within college walls. ↗

— Horatio Alger

#college #four #happiness #life #my life

Thus the castle of each feudal chieftain became a school of chivalry, into which any noble youth, whose parents were from poverty unable to educate him to the art of war, was readily received. ↗

— Horatio Alger

#art #art of war #became #castle #chieftain

The people who loved me when I was seven years old love my books, and the people who didn't like me when I was seven years old don't like my books. ↗

— Sherman Alexie

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World War II, the atomic bomb, the Cold War, made it hard for Americans to continue their optimism. ↗

— Stephen Ambrose

#atomic bomb #bomb #cold #cold war #continue

Today we have 1 billion users on the Net. By 2010 we will have maybe 2 billion. ↗

— Vinton Cerf

#maybe #net #today #users #will

There have been players with Indian heritage, but there hasn't been a Native-American professional basketball player who became a regular for all sorts of social and political reasons. ↗

— Sherman Alexie

#basketball #basketball player #became #been #hasn