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I am part of what she thinks is her illness, a symptom of which she thinks she has been cured. She, on the other hand, is what I was looking for.

Louise Erdrich

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Louise Erdrich
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: June 7
Novelist
Poet
Short Story Writer
Writer
Little Falls
Minnesota
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The greatest wisdom doesn't know itself. The richest plan is not to have one.
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I had a very free childhood and ranged around on my bicycle the way boys do. I had few restrictions.
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Ravens are the birds I'll miss most when I die. If only the darkness into which we must look were composed of the black light of their limber intelligence. If only we did not have to die at all. Instead, become ravens.
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Right and wrong were shades of meaning, not sides of a coin.
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The only time I see the truth is when I cross my eyes.
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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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Columbus only discovered that he was in some new place. He didn't discover America.
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I prefer to have some beliefs that don't make logical sense.
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When every inch of the world is known, sleep may be the only wilderness that we have left.
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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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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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