“Your past is a skeleton walking one step behind you, and your future is a a skeleton walking one step in front of you. Maybe you don't wear a watch, but your skeletons do, and they always know what time it is.”

— Sherman Alexie, book The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven

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Native American author and filmmaker 1966

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