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When we are young, the words are scattered all around us. As they are assembled by experience, so also are we, sentence by sentence, until the story takes shape.

Louise Erdrich

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Louise Erdrich
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: June 7
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Little Falls
Minnesota
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The length of sky is just about the size of my ignorance. Pure and wide.
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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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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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Numbers, time, inches, feet. All are just ploys for cutting nature down to size.
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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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We are never so poor that we cannot bless another human being, are we? So it is that every evil, whether moral or material, results in good. You'll see.
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The story comes around, pushing at our brains, and soon we are trying to ravel back to the beginning, trying to put families into order and make sense of things. But we start with one person, and soon another and another follows, and still another, until we are lost in the connections.
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History works itself out in the living.
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Sometimes a person's monstrosity seems superhuman.
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I make very involved drawings, even little structures, and try using design to figure out the rhythm of a plot. If there are several narrators then a clue has to pop up in the first line. There have to be certain grammatical clues, or distinctive names.
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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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The greatest wisdom doesn't know itself. The richest plan is not to have one.
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We do know that no one gets wise enough to really understand the heart of another, though it is the task of our life to try.
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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 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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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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If life's a joke, then suicide's a bad punch line.
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Right and wrong were shades of meaning, not sides of a coin.
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