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The only time I see the truth is when I cross my eyes.

Louise Erdrich

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Louise Erdrich
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: June 7
Novelist
Poet
Short Story Writer
Writer
Little Falls
Minnesota
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Crosses
Eyes
Eye
Truth
Time

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I prefer to have some beliefs that don't make logical sense.
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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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By writing I can live in ways that I could not survive.
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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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I might not be able to use the word hope, but I could certainly use the word optimism. I'm very optimistic. I don't feel that it helps to be pessimistic. At some point in my life I made a conscious decision that I would try to be optimistic - not blind to anything at all - but to always hear the way that had the best chance for happiness.
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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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Veils of love which was only hate petrified by longing--that was me.
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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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