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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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By writing I can live in ways that I could not survive.
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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 stood there in the shadowed doorway thinking with my tears. Yes, tears can be thoughts, why not?
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People forget the good, because the bad has more punch.
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Veils of love which was only hate petrified by longing--that was me.
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To think about love and passion and political correctness all together, it doesn't work. Art has to go way past the political to be effective.
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Things which do not grow and change are dead things.
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To love another another human in all of her splendor and imperfect perfection , it is a magnificent task...tremendous and foolish and human.
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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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I truly think that you can't go and stalk your material, you have to leave the door open and whatever chooses you, chooses you. You can't go and wrestle it to the ground.
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It's impossible to write about Native life without humor-that's how people maintain sanity.
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We all got holes in our lives. Nobody dies in a perfect garment.
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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.
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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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Her clothes were filled with safety pins and hidden tears.
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Add there was that moment when my mother and father walked in the door disguised as old people. I thought the miles in the car had bent them, dulled their eyes, even grayed and whitened their hair and caused their hands and voices to tremble. At the same time, I found, as I rose form the chair, I'd gotten old along with them.
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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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Now that I knew fear, I also knew it was not permanent. As powerful as it was, its grip on me would loosen. It would pass.
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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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What happens when you let an unsatisfactory present go on long enough? It becomes your entire history.
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