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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.

Louise Erdrich

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Louise Erdrich
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: June 7
Novelist
Poet
Short Story Writer
Writer
Little Falls
Minnesota
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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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We all got holes in our lives. Nobody dies in a perfect garment.
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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.
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Being a girl didn't really affect me until I entered junior high and had to wear skirts, curl my hair, and even get used to panty hose. However, my hatred of panty hose helped make me a writer who only wears comfortable clothes. I've successfully avoided panty hose for most of my life.
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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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What happens when you let an unsatisfactory present go on long enough? It becomes your entire history.
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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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If life's a joke, then suicide's a bad punch line.
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I had a very free childhood and ranged around on my bicycle the way boys do. I had few restrictions.
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I got well by talking. Death could not get a word in edgewise, grew discouraged, and traveled on.
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Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that.
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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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