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Sherman Joseph Alexie Jr. è uno scrittore, poeta e sceneggiatore statunitense particolarmente legato alle tradizioni delle tribù indiane del Nordamerica, che ne hanno caratterizzato l'opera: infatti molti suoi romanzi o sono ambientati all'interno delle riserve dei nativi o presentano occasionali o continue apparizioni della cultura dei pre-colombiani . Attualmente vive a Seattle, nello Stato di Washington. Wikipedia  

✵ 7. Ottobre 1966  •  Altri nomi شرمن الکسی, شيرمان أليكسي
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Sherman Alexie frasi celebri

“Ho cercato di fermarla, ma Penelope era già schizzata verso la macchina per dire a Roger tutta la verità.
E così Roger, che è buono di cuore e generoso di portafogli, e solo un pochino razzista, quella notte mi ha accompagnato in macchina fino a casa.
E da allora lo ha fatto un sacco di altre volte.
Se lasci entrare le persone nella tua vita anche solo un po', a volte possono essere dannatamente fantastiche.”

Sherman Alexie libro Diario assolutamente sincero di un indiano part-time

The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

“Mia nonna è stata l'unica a essere sicura al cento per cento che la mia fosse la decisione giusta.
"Pensa a tutte le persone che conoscerai" mi aveva detto. "Tutto il senso della vita sta in questo, capito? Conoscere tante persone. Mi piacerebbe poter venire con te. È una cosa così eccitante!”

Sherman Alexie libro Diario assolutamente sincero di un indiano part-time

The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

“Sì, è una biblioteca piccola. Minuscola. Ma se tu leggessi uno di questi libri al giorno, tutti i giorni, sai quanto ti ci vorrebbe per finirli tutti? Quasi dieci anni."
"Che cosa stai cercando di dire?"
"Che il mondo, anche nelle sue parti più piccole, è pieno di cose che non conosci".
Accidenti. Questa era una scoperta enorme.
Tutte le città, anche quelle piccole come Reardan, erano luoghi pieni di misteri da scoprire. E questo voleva dire che perfino Wellpinit, che era ancora più piccola, di misteri doveva nasconderne qualcuno.”

Sherman Alexie libro Diario assolutamente sincero di un indiano part-time

The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

Sherman Alexie: Frasi in inglese

“Is God a man or a woman?
God could be an armadillo. I have no idea.”

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Sherman Alexie libro Reservation Blues

Origine: Reservation Blues

“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.”

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Sherman Alexie libro Diario assolutamente sincero di un indiano part-time

Origine: The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

“It was so quiet, a reservation kind of quiet, where you can hear somebody drinking whiskey on the rocks three miles away.”

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Sherman Alexie libro The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven

Origine: The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven

“When a glass sits on a table here, people don't wonder if it's half filled or half empty. They just hope it's good beer.”

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Sherman Alexie libro The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven

The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven (1993)

“I think I was born with a suitcase.”

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Sherman Alexie libro Diario assolutamente sincero di un indiano part-time

Origine: The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

“The ordinary can be like medicine.”

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Sherman Alexie libro The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven

Origine: The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven

“I drew because words were too unpredictable.”

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Sherman Alexie libro Diario assolutamente sincero di un indiano part-time

Origine: The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

“He hated to leave, but he loved his work. He was a man, and men needed to work. More sexism! More masculine tunnel vision! More need for gender-sensitivity workshops!”

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Ten Little Indians (2003)

“[Flying into Baltimore after 9/11] I didn't want to see some pacifist, vegan, whole-wheat, free-range, organic, progressive, gray-ponytail, communist, liberal, draft-dodging, NPR-listening wimp! What are they going to do if somebody tries to hijack the plane? Throw a Birkenstock at him? Offer him some pot?…I was hoping for about twenty-five NRA-loving, gun-nut, serial-killing, psychopathic, Ollie North, Norman Schwarzkopf, right-wing, Agent Orange, post-traumatic-stress-disorder, CIA, FBI, automatic-weapon, smart-bomb, laser-sighting bastards!”

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Ten Little Indians (2003)

“Nurse: You guys are like the Lone Ranger and Tonto.
Thomas: We're more like Tonto and Tonto.”

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Smoke Signals (1998)

“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!”

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Ten Little Indians (2003)

“Thomas: Sometimes it's a good day to die, and sometimes it's a good day to have breakfast.”

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Sherman Alexie

Smoke Signals (1998)

“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!”

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Smoke Signals (1998)

“He wondered if she would dream about a man who never left her, about some unemployed agoraphobic Indian warrior who liked to wash dishes.”

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Ten Little Indians (2003)

“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.”

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Smoke Signals (1998)

“William always scanned the airports and airplanes for little brown guys who reeked of fundamentalism. That meant William was equally afraid of Osama bin Laden and Jerry Falwell wearing the last vestiges of a summer tan. William himself was a little brown guy, so the other travelers were always sniffing around him, but he smelled only of Dove soap, Mennen deoderant, and sarcasm.”

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Ten Little Indians (2003)

“I don't want long hair, I don't want short hair, I don't want hair at all, and I don't want to be a girl or a boy, I want to be a yellow-orange leaf some little kid picks up and pastes in his scrapbook.”

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Ten Little Indians (2003)

“Victor: Get Stoic.”

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Sherman Alexie

Smoke Signals (1998)

“I knew — because of my race, and my class, and rural geography … all these forces that crush all sorts of American kids, crush their hopes and dreams — I knew I had no chance unless I left and went to a better school.”

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On Alexie’s realization that the school on his reservation offered few educational opportunities in “Sherman Alexie Says He's Been 'Indian Du Jour' For A 'Very Long Day'” http://www.npr.org/2017/06/20/533653471/sherman-alexie-says-hes-been-indian-du-jour-for-a-very-long-day in NPR (2017 Jun 20)

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