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Louise Erdrich Inspirational Quotes (94)

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It's impossible to write about Native life without humor-that's how people maintain sanity.
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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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Sometimes a person's monstrosity seems superhuman.
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We do know that no one gets wise enough to really understand the heart of another, though it is the task of our life to try.
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We are never so poor that we cannot bless another human being, are we? So it is that every evil, whether moral or material, results in good. You'll see.
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If life's a joke, then suicide's a bad punch line.
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Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won't either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart.
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We all got holes in our lives. Nobody dies in a perfect garment.
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Women are strong, strong, terribly strong. We don't know how strong until we're pushing out our babies.
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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.
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But if there was embellishment, it only had to do with the facts.
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They were so strong in their beliefs that there came a time when it hardly mattered what exactly those beliefs were they all fused into a single stubbornness.
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Here I am, where I ought to be. A writer must have a place where he or she feels this, the place to love and be irritated with.
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Her mind was present because she was always gone. Her hands were filled because they grasped the meaning of empty. Life was simple. Her husband returned and she served him with indifferent patience this time. When he asked what had happened to her heat for him, she gestured to the west. The sun was setting. The sky was a body of fire.
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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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Can you stop your mother from singing to you? Who would do such a thing?
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I spend my time dwelling on revenge and try to deal with the monsters crawling out of the ashes.
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History works itself out in the living.
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You know, some people fall right through the hole in their lives. Its invisible, but they come to it after time, never knowing where.
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The only time I see the truth is when I cross my eyes.
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Our songs travel the earth. We sing to one another. Not a single note is ever lost and no song is original. They all come from the same place and go back to a time when only the stones howled.
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All of our actions have in their doing the seed of their undoing. ... That in her creation of her children there should be the unspeakable promise of their death, for by their birth she had created mortal beings.
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You really need to approach each book as if you have been a failure. . . . If you start to believe your flap-copy, you're finished as a writer.
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When every inch of the world is known, sleep may be the only wilderness that we have left.
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