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Sometimes a person's monstrosity seems superhuman.

Louise Erdrich

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Louise Erdrich
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: June 7
Novelist
Poet
Short Story Writer
Writer
Little Falls
Minnesota
Monstrosity
Superhuman
Seems
Persons
Person
Sometimes

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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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Things which do not grow and change are dead things.
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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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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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Right and wrong were shades of meaning, not sides of a coin.
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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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