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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
Mind
Freedom
Running
Found
Hands
Heart

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At times the whole sky was ringed in shooting points and puckers of light gathering and falling, pulsing, fading, rhythmical as breathing. All of a piece. As if the sky were a pattern of nerves and our thought and memories traveled across it. As if the sky were one gigantic memory for us all.
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Every so often something shatters like ice and we are in the river of our existence. We are aware.
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To be of mixed blood is a great gift for a writer. I have one foot on tribal lands and one foot in middle-class life.
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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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Can you stop your mother from singing to you? Who would do such a thing?
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Numbers, time, inches, feet. All are just ploys for cutting nature down to size.
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I feel myself becoming less a person than a place, inhabited, a foreign land.
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It's impossible to write about Native life without humor-that's how people maintain sanity.
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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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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.
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It is easy to take away the world that we think is so permanent and reliable.
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When women age into their power, no wind can upset them, no hand turn aside their knowledge, no fact can deflect their point of view.
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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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We passed over in a sweep of sorrow that would persist into our small forever. We just keep going.
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Cold sinks in, there to stay. And people, they'll leave you, sure. There's no return to what was and no way back. There's just emptiness all around, and you in it, like singing up from the bottom of a well, like nothing else, until you harm yourself, until you are a mad dog biting yourself for sympathy. Because there is no relenting.
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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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A woman's body is the gate to this life. A man's body is the gate to the next life.
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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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