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I got well by talking. Death could not get a word in edgewise, grew discouraged, and traveled on.
Louise Erdrich
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Louise Erdrich
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: June 7
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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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I had a very free childhood and ranged around on my bicycle the way boys do. I had few restrictions.
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The length of sky is just about the size of my ignorance. Pure and wide.
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I can't imagine a home without an overflow of books. The point of books is to have way too many but to always feel you never have enough, or the right one at the right moment, but then sometimes to find you'd longed to fall asleep reading the Aspern Papers, and there it is.
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I stood there in the shadowed doorway thinking with my tears. Yes, tears can be thoughts, why not?
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The only time I see the truth is when I cross my eyes.
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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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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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I think one of the most fertile, unexplored areas for poets and fiction writers is the world of science. I become overwhelmed by the science world.
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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.
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When small towns find they cannot harm the strangest of their members, when eccentrics show resilience, they are eventually embraced and even cherished.
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When we are young, the words are scattered all around us. As they are assembled by experience, so also are we, sentence by sentence, until the story takes shape.
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The universe is transformation.
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Your life feels different on you, once you greet death and understand your heart's position.
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What is this life but the sound of an appalling love.
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Be lovely and do no harm.
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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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In order to purify yourself, you have to understand yourself, Father Trais went on. Everything out in the world is also in you. Good, bad, evil, perfection, death, everything. So we study our souls.
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Time is the water in which we live, and we breathe it like fish. ... Time pours into us and then pours out again. In between the two pourings we live our destiny.
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