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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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Suicide
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Life
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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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But then as time passed, I learned the lesson that parents do early on. You fail sometimes. No matter how much you love your children, there are times you slip. There are moments you can't give, stutter, lose your temper, or simply lose face with the world, and you can't explain this to a child.
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He despised his body for its boring hungers, reflex anger its petty, obliterating rage. But now he'd become detached. He regarded his body with a tender regret. It was the thing his spirit had to haul.
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Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that.
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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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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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The contents of a house can trigger all sorts of revisions to family history.
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I truly think that you can't go and stalk your material, you have to leave the door open and whatever chooses you, chooses you. You can't go and wrestle it to the ground.
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Freedom, I found is not only in the running but in the heart, the mind, the hands.
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What is this life but the sound of an appalling love.
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But if there was embellishment, it only had to do with the facts.
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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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Every so often something shatters like ice and we are in the river of our existence. We are aware.
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You never know where you're going to find the same thoughts in another brain, but when it happens you know it right off, just like you were connected by a small electrical wire that suddenly glows red hot and sparks.
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I got well by talking. Death could not get a word in edgewise, grew discouraged, and traveled on.
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What happens when you let an unsatisfactory present go on long enough? It becomes your entire history.
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Columbus only discovered that he was in some new place. He didn't discover America.
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You see I thought love got easier over the years so it didn't hurt so bad when it hurt, or feel so good when it felt good. I thought it smoothed out and old people hardly noticed it. I thought it curled up and died, I guess. Now I saw it rear up like a whip and lash.
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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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When women age into their power, no wind can upset them, no hand turn aside their knowledge, no fact can deflect their point of view.
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