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Victor: Get Stoic. (Sherman Alexie)
Don't live up to your stereotypes. View quote
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Thomas: Hey Victor! I'm sorry 'bout your dad. Victor: How'd you hear about it? Thomas: I heard it on the wind. I heard it from the birds. I felt it in the sunlight. And your mom was just in here cryin. View quote
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Nurse: You guys are like the Lone Ranger and Tonto. Thomas: We're more like Tonto and Tonto. View quote
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Victor: White people won't respect you if you don't look mean. You have to look like a warrior, like you just got back from killing a buffalo. Thomas: But our tribe never hunted buffalo. We were fishermen. Victor: What, you want to look like you just caught a fish? This isn't Dances with Salmon, you know! View quote
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Oh, I'm sorry, sir, if I offended you. I am not anti-Semitic. I love all of my brothers and sisters. Jews, Catholics, Buddhists, even the atheists, I love them all. Like you Americans sing, 'Joy to the world and Jeremiah Bullfrog! View quote
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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 romantic and highly intelligent. View quote
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That's right, I am a book kisser. View quote
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Drinking would shut down my seeing and my hearing and my feeling,' she used to say. 'Why would I want to be in the world if I couldn't touch the world with all of my senses intact? View quote
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The world, even the smallest parts of it, is filled with things you don't know. If you care about something enough, it's going to make you cry. But you have to use it. Use your tears. Use your pain. Use your fear. Get mad. View quote
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But the real interesting stuff is in the cellar and the attic. (Sherman Alexie)
Teenagers read millions of books every year. They read for entertainment and for education. They read because of school assignments and pop culture fads. View quote
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You should approach each book -- you should approach life -- with the real possibility that you might get a metaphorical boner at any point. View quote
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Nostalgia is always doomed and dooming. View quote
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What inspires a poem for me is usually a moment. View quote
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We all know the Indians were colonized by the Europeans, but every colonized Indian has been colonized by the Indian reaction to colonization. View quote
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A lot of people have no idea that right now Y.A. (young adult). is the Garden of Eden of literature. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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The dream he needed most was the dream that frightened him more. View quote
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My name is Sherman J. Alexie Jr., and I am an insomniac. (Sherman Alexie)
My father is an amazing man. View quote
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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. View quote
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I think a lot of Indians want Indian artists to be cultural cheerleaders rather than cultural investigators. View quote
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I wanted to do a weird book and reestablish my independent, small-press roots. View quote
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