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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
Safety
Filled
Tears
Clothes
Pins
Hidden

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We passed over in a sweep of sorrow that would persist into our small forever. We just keep going.
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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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I work really out of mythology, so often I work out of a story that has remained lodged inside somehow, or I work out of history, you know, out of a sense of historical inevitability with characters.
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By writing I can live in ways that I could not survive.
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The contents of a house can trigger all sorts of revisions to family history.
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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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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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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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History works itself out in the living.
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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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I have brothers and was a tomboy, if that's still a designation. It wasn't a stretch for me to think and write as a 13-year-old boy - it is freeing.
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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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I think she is confused by the way I want her, which is like nobody else. I know this deep down. I want her in a new way, a way she's never been told about.
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If life's a joke, then suicide's a bad punch line.
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To think about love and passion and political correctness all together, it doesn't work. Art has to go way past the political to be effective.
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