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Sherman Alexie

"So I heard the boom of my father's rifle when he shot my best friend. A bullet only costs about two cents, and anybody can afford that."

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"So I heard the boom of my father's rifle when he shot my best friend. A bullet only costs about two cents, and anybody can afford that."

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Donna Grant

"I have beaten people into the ground and the more they cry the more of a beating I gave them. If they don't cry, I come off, if they cry then I will beat them and beat them and beat them."

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Donna Grant

"We are all a part of a culture of violence that dominates every aspect of our lives."

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Donna Grant

"To protect one's own statement is the greatest form of violence. To impress upon others that his statement is correct is a form of violence itself."

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Donna Grant

"He kills her in her own humor."

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Donna Grant

"Violence only attacks the body, but it is non-violence that has the power to influence the soul and reshape it towards a peaceful future."

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Donna Grant

"We live in a culture of violence."

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Donna Grant

"Damn,' someone behind me says. 'I was hoping we would get to scrape some Stiff pancake off the pavement later."

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Donna Grant

"I froze, shocked. (And don't try to claim that you did anything different the first time a government bureaucrat pulled a gun on you.)"

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Donna Grant

"The real violence is committed in the writing of history, the records of the legal system, the reporting of news, through the manipulation of social contracts, and the control of information."

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Donna Grant

"All men carry murder in their hearts, yet even so, the poisoner is beneath contempt."

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Sherman Alexie
"And I couldn't make fun of her for that dream. It was my dream, too. And Indian boys weren't supposed to dream like that. And white girls from small towns weren't supposed to dream big, either.We were supposed to be happy with our limitations. But there was no way Penelope and I were going to sit still. Nope, we both wanted to fly."

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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."

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

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

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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."

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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."

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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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