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Sherman Alexie

"My father was always depressed. When he was home and sober, he was mostly in his room."

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Donna Grant

"The term clinical depression finds its way into too many conversations these days. One has a sense that a catastrophe has occurred in the psychic landscape."

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Donna Grant

"Lost serie are full of depression I think or there is some kind of like this... I don't know up to where I could get... but I will try my best."

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Donna Grant

"I was tired and crazy and rushed, and every time I boarded a plane, I wanted the plane to crash. I envied people dying of cancer. I hated my life. I was tired and bored with my job and my furniture, and I couldn't see any way to change things.Only end them."

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Donna Grant

"Coming down off crack is like the worst depression. The worst."

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Donna Grant

"I've had this problem since I was in my 20s. They don't call it manic depression anymore. They call it a bipolar disorder, and I'm a Type 2."

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Donna Grant

"I buried my head under the darkness of the pillow and pretended it was night. I couldn't see the point of getting up. I had nothing to look forward to."

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Donna Grant

"In the Depression we had to divert corn acreage."

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Donna Grant

"I lived in a really dark place. I wasn't safe in my own mind. I woke up every morning hoping to die and then spent the rest of the day wondering if maybe I was already dead because I couldn't even tell the difference."

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Donna Grant

"You largely constructed your depression. It wasn't given to you. Therefore, you can deconstruct it."

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Donna Grant

"My recovery from manic depression has been an evolution, not a sudden miracle."

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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."

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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."

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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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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."

Pain

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