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Freedom, I found is not only in the running but in the heart, the mind, the hands.

Louise Erdrich

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Louise Erdrich
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: June 7
Novelist
Poet
Short Story Writer
Writer
Little Falls
Minnesota
Hands
Heart
Mind
Freedom
Running
Found

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To love another another human in all of her splendor and imperfect perfection , it is a magnificent task...tremendous and foolish and human.
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I might not be able to use the word hope, but I could certainly use the word optimism. I'm very optimistic. I don't feel that it helps to be pessimistic. At some point in my life I made a conscious decision that I would try to be optimistic - not blind to anything at all - but to always hear the way that had the best chance for happiness.
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Right and wrong were shades of meaning, not sides of a coin.
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The length of sky is just about the size of my ignorance. Pure and wide.
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I prefer to have some beliefs that don't make logical sense.
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I have brothers and was a tomboy, if that's still a designation. It wasn't a stretch for me to think and write as a 13-year-old boy - it is freeing.
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Time was rushing around me like water around a big wet rock. The only difference is, I was not so durable as stones. Very quickly I would be smoothed away.
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A woman's body is the gate to this life. A man's body is the gate to the next life.
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We passed over in a sweep of sorrow that would persist into our small forever. We just keep going.
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I thought how we might have to yell to be heard by Higher Power, but that's not saying it's not there. And that is faith for you. It's belief even when the gods don't deliver.
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Here is the most telling fact: you wish to possess me. Here is another fact: I loved you and let you think you could.
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The greatest wisdom doesn't know itself. The richest plan is not to have one.
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It's impossible to write about Native life without humor-that's how people maintain sanity.
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If life's a joke, then suicide's a bad punch line.
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I don't pray. When I was young, I vowed I never would be caught begging God. If I want something I get it for myself. I go to church only to show the old hens they don't get me down.
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