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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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We all got holes in our lives. Nobody dies in a perfect garment.
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I knew each person's delusion, the places their records had scratched, where the sounds repeated.
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By writing I can live in ways that I could not survive.
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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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Ravens are the birds I'll miss most when I die. If only the darkness into which we must look were composed of the black light of their limber intelligence. If only we did not have to die at all. Instead, become ravens.
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Things which do not grow and change are dead things.
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Sometimes a person's monstrosity seems superhuman.
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I am part of what she thinks is her illness, a symptom of which she thinks she has been cured. She, on the other hand, is what I was looking for.
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Be lovely and do no harm.
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The only time I see the truth is when I cross my eyes.
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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 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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Your life feels different on you, once you greet death and understand your heart's position.
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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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There is a legacy of violence against native women that has gotten worse and worse over time.
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You really need to approach each book as if you have been a failure. . . . If you start to believe your flap-copy, you're finished as a writer.
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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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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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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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