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What happens when you let an unsatisfactory present go on long enough? It becomes your entire history.
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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Our songs travel the earth. We sing to one another. Not a single note is ever lost and no song is original. They all come from the same place and go back to a time when only the stones howled.
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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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I have brothers and was a tomboy, if that's still a designation. It wasn't a stretch for me to think and write as a 13-year-old boy - it is freeing.
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Veils of love which was only hate petrified by longing--that was me.
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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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The length of sky is just about the size of my ignorance. Pure and wide.
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We all got holes in our lives. Nobody dies in a perfect garment.
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To sew is to pray. Men don't understand this. They see the whole but they don't see the stitches. They don't see the speech of the creator in the work of the needle.
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The contents of a house can trigger all sorts of revisions to family history.
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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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The greatest wisdom doesn't know itself. The richest plan is not to have one.
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Love won't be tampered with, love won't go away. Push it to one side and it creeps to the other.
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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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I knew each person's delusion, the places their records had scratched, where the sounds repeated.
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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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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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