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If life's a joke, then suicide's a bad punch line.

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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i want to hear what's happened to you, she said evenly after a while. she gestured in the direction, down river, of the butcher shop. it's just that there is nowhere else to start, she said gently. niether of us is the same. but i'm different because of small, good, manageable things. you're different because ... things i don't know.
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Things which do not grow and change are dead things.
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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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Be lovely and do no harm.
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Cold sinks in, there to stay. And people, they'll leave you, sure. There's no return to what was and no way back. There's just emptiness all around, and you in it, like singing up from the bottom of a well, like nothing else, until you harm yourself, until you are a mad dog biting yourself for sympathy. Because there is no relenting.
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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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Our songs travel the earth. We sing to one another. Not a single note is ever lost and no song is original. They all come from the same place and go back to a time when only the stones howled.
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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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We passed over in a sweep of sorrow that would persist into our small forever. We just keep going.
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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 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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The only time I see the truth is when I cross my eyes.
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You know, some people fall right through the hole in their lives. Its invisible, but they come to it after time, never knowing where.
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Veils of love which was only hate petrified by longing--that was me.
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I prefer to have some beliefs that don't make logical sense.
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Love won't be tampered with, love won't go away. Push it to one side and it creeps to the other.
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Sometimes a person's monstrosity seems superhuman.
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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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Life is made up of three kinds of people -- those who live it, those afraid to, those in between.
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There is a legacy of violence against native women that has gotten worse and worse over time.
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