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We are never so poor that we cannot bless another human being, are we? So it is that every evil, whether moral or material, results in good. You'll see.

Louise Erdrich

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Louise Erdrich
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: June 7
Novelist
Poet
Short Story Writer
Writer
Little Falls
Minnesota
Poor
Good
Never
Whether
Evil
Bless
Another
Material
Cannot
Materials
Human
Results
Humans
Moral
Every

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The length of sky is just about the size of my ignorance. Pure and wide.
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