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The length of sky is just about the size of my ignorance. Pure and wide. (p40)

— Louise Erdrich Love Medicine (1984)

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

LaRose (2016)

Sorrow eats time. Be patient. Time eats sorrow.

LaRose (2016)

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

The Blue Jay's Dance: A Birth Year (1996)

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

The Blue Jay's Dance: A Birth Year (1996)

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

with The Paris Review (2010)

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You have to start with the truth. The truth is the only way that we can get anywhere. Because any decision-making that is based upon lies or ignorance can't lead to a good conclusion.

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The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.

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It is not in the books of the Philosophers, but in the religious symbolism of the Ancients, that we must look for the footprints of Science, and re-discover the Mysteries of Knowledge.

Albert Pike Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry (1871)

Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education.

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