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Life is made up of three kinds of people -- those who live it, those afraid to, those in between.

Louise Erdrich

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Louise Erdrich
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: June 7
Novelist
Poet
Short Story Writer
Writer
Little Falls
Minnesota
Kinds
Afraid
Three
Live
Made
Kind
Life
People

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I knew each person's delusion, the places their records had scratched, where the sounds repeated.
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Now that I knew fear, I also knew it was not permanent. As powerful as it was, its grip on me would loosen. It would pass.
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Her clothes were filled with safety pins and hidden tears.
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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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When every inch of the world is known, sleep may be the only wilderness that we have left.
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What is this life but the sound of an appalling love.
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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 only time I see the truth is when I cross my eyes.
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Can you stop your mother from singing to you? Who would do such a thing?
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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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