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Can you stop your mother from singing to you? Who would do such a thing?

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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Singing
Stop
Mother

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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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You see I thought love got easier over the years so it didn't hurt so bad when it hurt, or feel so good when it felt good. I thought it smoothed out and old people hardly noticed it. I thought it curled up and died, I guess. Now I saw it rear up like a whip and lash.
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The only time I see the truth is when I cross my eyes.
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If life's a joke, then suicide's a bad punch line.
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Numbers, time, inches, feet. All are just ploys for cutting nature down to size.
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But if there was embellishment, it only had to do with the facts.
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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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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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People forget the good, because the bad has more punch.
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I had a very free childhood and ranged around on my bicycle the way boys do. I had few restrictions.
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I prefer to have some beliefs that don't make logical sense.
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Cold sinks in, there to stay. And people, they'll leave you, sure. There's no return to what was and no way back. There's just emptiness all around, and you in it, like singing up from the bottom of a well, like nothing else, until you harm yourself, until you are a mad dog biting yourself for sympathy. Because there is no relenting.
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