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Freedom, I found is not only in the running but in the heart, the mind, the hands.

Louise Erdrich

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Louise Erdrich
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: June 7
Novelist
Poet
Short Story Writer
Writer
Little Falls
Minnesota
Freedom
Running
Found
Hands
Heart
Mind

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Her mind was present because she was always gone. Her hands were filled because they grasped the meaning of empty. Life was simple. Her husband returned and she served him with indifferent patience this time. When he asked what had happened to her heat for him, she gestured to the west. The sun was setting. The sky was a body of fire.
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Your life feels different on you, once you greet death and understand your heart's position.
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In order to purify yourself, you have to understand yourself, Father Trais went on. Everything out in the world is also in you. Good, bad, evil, perfection, death, everything. So we study our souls.
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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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I can't imagine a home without an overflow of books. The point of books is to have way too many but to always feel you never have enough, or the right one at the right moment, but then sometimes to find you'd longed to fall asleep reading the Aspern Papers, and there it is.
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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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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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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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Right and wrong were shades of meaning, not sides of a coin.
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Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that.
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Women are strong, strong, terribly strong. We don't know how strong until we are pushing out our babies. We are too often treated like babies having babies when we should be in training, like acolytes, novices to high priestesshood, like serious applicants for the space program.
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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 length of sky is just about the size of my ignorance. Pure and wide.
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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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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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