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The universe is transformation.

Louise Erdrich

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Louise Erdrich
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: June 7
Novelist
Poet
Short Story Writer
Writer
Little Falls
Minnesota
Transformation
Universe

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It is easy to take away the world that we think is so permanent and reliable.
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Freedom, I found is not only in the running but in the heart, the mind, the hands.
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By writing I can live in ways that I could not survive.
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There is a legacy of violence against native women that has gotten worse and worse over time.
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People forget the good, because the bad has more punch.
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Time was rushing around me like water around a big wet rock. The only difference is, I was not so durable as stones. Very quickly I would be smoothed away.
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Right and wrong were shades of meaning, not sides of a coin.
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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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Women don't realize how much store men set on the regularity of their habits. We absorb their comings and goings into our bodies, their rhythms into our bones.
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Can you stop your mother from singing to you? Who would do such a thing?
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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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They were so strong in their beliefs that there came a time when it hardly mattered what exactly those beliefs were they all fused into a single stubbornness.
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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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I prefer to have some beliefs that don't make logical sense.
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History works itself out in the living.
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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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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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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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The Internet, which seems now so embedded and personal and crucial to our lives, isn't at all - we really shouldn't think of it that way.
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The contents of a house can trigger all sorts of revisions to family history.
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