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Society is like this card game here, cousin. We got dealt our hand before we were even born, and as we grow we have to play as best as we can.
Louise Erdrich
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Louise Erdrich
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: June 7
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Little Falls
Minnesota
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History works itself out in the living.
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If life's a joke, then suicide's a bad punch line.
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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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We are never so poor that we cannot bless another human being, are we? So it is that every evil, whether moral or material, results in good. You'll see.
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i want to hear what's happened to you, she said evenly after a while. she gestured in the direction, down river, of the butcher shop. it's just that there is nowhere else to start, she said gently. niether of us is the same. but i'm different because of small, good, manageable things. you're different because ... things i don't know.
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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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Sometimes a person's monstrosity seems superhuman.
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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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Freedom, I found is not only in the running but in the heart, the mind, the hands.
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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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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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We passed over in a sweep of sorrow that would persist into our small forever. We just keep going.
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I make very involved drawings, even little structures, and try using design to figure out the rhythm of a plot. If there are several narrators then a clue has to pop up in the first line. There have to be certain grammatical clues, or distinctive names.
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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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Her clothes were filled with safety pins and hidden tears.
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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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You know, some people fall right through the hole in their lives. Its invisible, but they come to it after time, never knowing where.
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Can you stop your mother from singing to you? Who would do such a thing?
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I thought how we might have to yell to be heard by Higher Power, but that's not saying it's not there. And that is faith for you. It's belief even when the gods don't deliver.
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