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All of our actions have in their doing the seed of their undoing. ... That in her creation of her children there should be the unspeakable promise of their death, for by their birth she had created mortal beings.

Louise Erdrich

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Louise Erdrich
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: June 7
Novelist
Poet
Short Story Writer
Writer
Little Falls
Minnesota
Birth
Mortal
Creation
Seed
Death
Mortals
Action
Seeds
Children
Actions
Created
Promise
Undoing
Beings
Unspeakable

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Numbers, time, inches, feet. All are just ploys for cutting nature down to size.
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I knew each person's delusion, the places their records had scratched, where the sounds repeated.
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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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