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Her clothes were filled with safety pins and hidden tears.

Louise Erdrich

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Louise Erdrich
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: June 7
Novelist
Poet
Short Story Writer
Writer
Little Falls
Minnesota
Pins
Hidden
Safety
Filled
Tears
Clothes

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I prefer to have some beliefs that don't make logical sense.
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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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At times the whole sky was ringed in shooting points and puckers of light gathering and falling, pulsing, fading, rhythmical as breathing. All of a piece. As if the sky were a pattern of nerves and our thought and memories traveled across it. As if the sky were one gigantic memory for us all.
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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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Every so often something shatters like ice and we are in the river of our existence. We are aware.
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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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But if there was embellishment, it only had to do with the facts.
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If only I had discipline, but alas, it is only an obsessive-compulsive trait and the beauty of habit that causes me to return again and again to my work.
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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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I stood there in the shadowed doorway thinking with my tears. Yes, tears can be thoughts, why not?
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Things which do not grow and change are dead things.
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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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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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It is easy to take away the world that we think is so permanent and reliable.
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Here is the most telling fact: you wish to possess me. Here is another fact: I loved you and let you think you could.
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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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