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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.
Louise Erdrich
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Louise Erdrich
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: June 7
Novelist
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Short Story Writer
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Little Falls
Minnesota
Fish
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Time
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By writing I can live in ways that I could not survive.
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If life's a joke, then suicide's a bad punch line.
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