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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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Donna Grant

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

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Donna Grant

"If knew more about Alzheimer's and the Brain, your mind will be blow and most cases you will confused..."

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Donna Grant

"To forget is to blithely toss aside the hard lessons that were hard won by others before us, thereby needlessly dooming us to endure the hard lessons that are likely to be forgotten by those who will follow us. And it is altogether reasonable that in order to avoid this repetitive trouncing, God graciously granted us memories."

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Donna Grant

"I remember your profile in darkness outlined by stars ..."

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Donna Grant

"The most evocative life memories, which produced a synesthesia of emotions, consist of a host of small pleasures intertwined with the homespun stitches of love, affection, kindness, humility, and appreciation of nature."

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Donna Grant

"Create memories, forget misery."

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Donna Grant

"Precipitate as weather, she appeared from somewhere, then evaporated, leaving only memory."

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Donna Grant

"I shouldn't have taken a vow of silence, I told myself. What did I want? Nothing much. Just a memorial. But what is a memorial, when you come right down to it, but a commemoration of wounds endured? Endured, and resented. Without memory, there can be no revenge."

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Donna Grant

"[In] everyday life, it is very rare that we are confronted with new facts about events of long ago. Our memories are almost never challenged. They can, instead, be frozen in place, no matter how flawed they are, or become a work in continual artistic revision."

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Donna Grant

"It is said that nothing in our lives is ever lost, that nothing can prevent its having been. That is why, so very often the weight of the past lies ineluctably upon the present. But that is why it is so real in memory, so wholly itself, so far beyond replacement."

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Sherman Alexie
"Everyone I have lost in the closing of a doorthe click of the lockis not forgotten, theydo not die but remainwithin the soft edgesof the earth, the ashof house fires and cancerin sin and forgivenesshuddled under old blanketsdreaming their way intomy hands, my heartclosing tight like fists."

Grief

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Sherman Alexie
"But my grandmother wanted us to forgive her murderer."

Forgiveness

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Sherman Alexie
"If I wasn't writing poems I'd be washing my hands all the time."

Time

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Sherman Alexie
"That's how I do this life sometimes by making the ordinary just like magic and just like a card trick and just like a mirror and just like the disappearing. Every Indian learns how to be a magician and learns how to misdirect attention and the dark hand is always quicker than the white eye and no matter how close you get to my heart you will never find out my secrets and I'll never tell you and I'll never show you the same trick twice. I'm traveling heavy with illusions."

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Sherman Alexie
"Walk the midway and hear the carnival barker.Come see the freak named after his deceased father.Come see the prince who wants to abdicate his throne.Come see the son whose name is carved on a gravestone."

Tragedy

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Sherman Alexie
"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."

Nostalgia

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

Friendship

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Sherman Alexie
"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 are assholes and the people who are not."

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Sherman Alexie
"My only purpose is to teach children to rebel against authority figures."

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Sherman Alexie
"How much do we remember of what hurts us most? I've been thinking about pain, how each of us constructs our past to justify what we feel now. How each successive pain distorts the preceding."

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