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Sherman Alexie

"You're always making up stuff from the past, she said. "And the stuff you imagine is always better than the stuff that actually happened."

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"You're always making up stuff from the past, she said. "And the stuff you imagine is always better than the stuff that actually happened."

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"Oh, oh, oh being a soldier... I remember that day... and that time.. and some moments.. I am still confused... as a soldier you could kill first somebody without a reason with soldier way string from piano... as a second... we use codes likePanda on Black... Black and white... Over the Game... Game the Shit... and many others what do they mean!?!?- Ohhhhh... you don't want to know, do ya???"

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"Yeah, I remember that day... At that day I choose a book now is few years later and so far I never open it..."

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"You can never leave a place unless you leave that place in your mind!"

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"Every time the long-forgotten people of the past are remembered, they are born again!"

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"But memory is less disposed to compromise."

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"Some days in late August at home are like this, the air thin and eager like this, with something in it sad and nostalgic and familiar. Man the sum of his climatic experiences Father said. Man the sum of what have you. A problem in impure properties carried tediously to an unvarying nil: stalemate of dust and desire."

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Amber Hurdle

"At last he said, "Did you come out of the big mountains?"Gitano shook his head slowly. "No, I walked down the Salinas Valley."The afternoon thought would not let Joey go. "Did you ever go into the big mountains back there?"The old dark eyes grew fixed, and their light turned inward on the years that were living in Gitano's head."

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"There are times that one treasures for all one's life, and such times are burned clearly and sharply on the material of total recall. I felt very fortunate that morning."

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"Four hoarse blasts of a ship's whistle still raise the hair on my neck and set my feet to tapping."

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"It disturbs me that he can remember some of these things about himself, but not others; that the things he's lost or misplaced exist now only for me. If he's forgotten so much, what have I forgotten?"

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