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The Internet, which seems now so embedded and personal and crucial to our lives, isn't at all - we really shouldn't think of it that way.

Louise Erdrich

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Louise Erdrich
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: June 7
Novelist
Poet
Short Story Writer
Writer
Little Falls
Minnesota
Internet
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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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Columbus only discovered that he was in some new place. He didn't discover America.
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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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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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The greatest wisdom doesn't know itself. The richest plan is not to have one.
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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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