"When we are young, the words are scattered all around us. As they are assembled by experience, so also are we, sentence by sentence, until the story takes shape."

-- Louise Erdrich

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“[A]t bottom, and just in the deepest and most important things, we are unutterably alone, and for one person to be able to advise or even help another, a lot must happen, a lot must go well, a whole constellation of things must come right in order once to succeed.”
“Depression tends to turn us away from the everyday things of Godâ€™s creation. But whenever God steps in, His inspiration is to do the most natural, simple things- things we would never have imagined God was in, but as we do them we find Him there.”
“At their first appearance innovators have always been derided as fools and mad men.”
“In the '60s and '70s, people didn't pay a lot of attention to gangs. I think gangs still existed, but gangs had fallen out of criminological favor.”
“I base jumped off the Jesus statue in Rio de Janeiro.”
“I think people have always loved things that are bigger than life, things that are imaginative.”

Source : Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. June 20, 2001.
“Rich and successful people are solution-oriented; they spend their time and energy strategizing and planning the answers to challenges that come up, and creating systems to make certain that problem doesn't occur again.”
“Too much of Indian writing in English, it seemed to me, consisted of middle-class people writing about other middle-class people - and a small slice of life being passed off as an authentic portrait of the country.”

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