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"I have never seen the truth...without crossing my eyes. Life is crazy." (p135)

— Louise Erdrich The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse (2001)

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Getting blown up happened in an instant; getting put together took the rest of your life.

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Sorrow eats time. Be patient. Time eats sorrow.

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When every inch of the world is known, sleep may be the only wilderness that we have left. (p190)

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What are dreams but an internal wilderness and what is desire but a wildness of the soul? (p182)

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Bits of narrative always cling to a title, like magnetism.

with The Paris Review (2010)

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False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.

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