The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
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After high school, my sister just froze. Didn’t go to college, didn’t get a job. Didn’t do anything. Kind of sad, I guess. But she is also beautiful and strong and funny. She is the prettiest and strongest and funniest person who ever spent twenty-three hours a day alone in a basement.
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And for some reason I don’t understand, lonely white people love to hang around lonelier Indians.
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He walked away. I stood there and waited for the rocks to replace my bones and blood.
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“The world, even the smallest parts of it, is filled with things you don’t know.”
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There are all kinds of addicts, I guess. We all have pain. And we all look for ways to make the pain go away.
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“Well, life is a constant struggle between being an individual and being a member of the community.”
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“The quality of a man’s life is in direct proportion to his commitment to excellence, regardless of his chosen field of endeavor.”
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“Drinking would shut down my seeing and my hearing and my feeling,” she used to say. “Why would I want to be in the world if I couldn’t touch the world with all of my senses intact?”
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And when we said good-bye to one grandmother, we said good-bye to all of them. Each funeral was a funeral for all of us. We lived and died together.
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The world is only broken into two tribes: The people who are assholes and the people who are not.”
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And one day as he was riding, the horse trainer said that my son was “borrowing the strength of the horse until he could find his own.”