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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
Beings
Unspeakable
Birth
Mortal
Creation
Seed
Death
Mortals
Action
Seeds
Children
Actions
Created
Promise
Undoing

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I don't pray. When I was young, I vowed I never would be caught begging God. If I want something I get it for myself. I go to church only to show the old hens they don't get me down.
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When every inch of the world is known, sleep may be the only wilderness that we have left.
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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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Your life feels different on you, once you greet death and understand your heart's position.
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I knew each person's delusion, the places their records had scratched, where the sounds repeated.
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Columbus only discovered that he was in some new place. He didn't discover America.
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