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Louise Erdrich Inspirational Quotes (94)

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Being a girl didn't really affect me until I entered junior high and had to wear skirts, curl my hair, and even get used to panty hose. However, my hatred of panty hose helped make me a writer who only wears comfortable clothes. I've successfully avoided panty hose for most of my life.
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Your life feels different on you, once you greet death and understand your heart's position. You wear your life like a garment from the mission bundle sale ever after - lightly because you realize you never paid nothing for it, cherishing because you know you won't ever come by such a bargain again.
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Time is the water in which we live, and we breathe it like fish. ... Time pours into us and then pours out again. In between the two pourings we live our destiny.
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Women are strong, strong, terribly strong. We don't know how strong until we are pushing out our babies. We are too often treated like babies having babies when we should be in training, like acolytes, novices to high priestesshood, like serious applicants for the space program.
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The universe is transformation.
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Every so often something shatters like ice and we are in the river of our existence. We are aware.
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By writing I can live in ways that I could not survive.
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It is easy to take away the world that we think is so permanent and reliable.
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What happens when you let an unsatisfactory present go on long enough? It becomes your entire history.
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I want to remember what bullshit looks like when weapons of mass destruction are diagrammed out and whacko intelligence is delivered in an ominous way to strike fear into people and especially to pull on the idealism and zeal of the young.
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To be of mixed blood is a great gift for a writer. I have one foot on tribal lands and one foot in middle-class life.
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Love won't be tampered with, love won't go away. Push it to one side and it creeps to the other.
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Society is like this card game here, cousin. We got dealt our hand before we were even born, and as we grow we have to play as best as we can.
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Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that.
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In order to purify yourself, you have to understand yourself, Father Trais went on. Everything out in the world is also in you. Good, bad, evil, perfection, death, everything. So we study our souls.
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Her clothes were filled with safety pins and hidden tears.
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I am part of what she thinks is her illness, a symptom of which she thinks she has been cured. She, on the other hand, is what I was looking for.
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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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Columbus only discovered that he was in some new place. He didn't discover America.
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The greatest wisdom doesn't know itself. The richest plan is not to have one.
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There is a legacy of violence against native women that has gotten worse and worse over time.
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I can't imagine a home without an overflow of books. The point of books is to have way too many but to always feel you never have enough, or the right one at the right moment, but then sometimes to find you'd longed to fall asleep reading the Aspern Papers, and there it is.
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Add there was that moment when my mother and father walked in the door disguised as old people. I thought the miles in the car had bent them, dulled their eyes, even grayed and whitened their hair and caused their hands and voices to tremble. At the same time, I found, as I rose form the chair, I'd gotten old along with them.
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I got well by talking. Death could not get a word in edgewise, grew discouraged, and traveled on.
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