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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
Novelist
Poet
Short Story Writer
Writer
Little Falls
Minnesota
Enough
Unsatisfied
Long
Novelists
Life
Entire
Becomes
Present
History
Happens
Past
Unsatisfactory

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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 feel myself becoming less a person than a place, inhabited, a foreign land.
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I knew each person's delusion, the places their records had scratched, where the sounds repeated.
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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 don't pray. When I was young, I vowed I never would be caught begging God. If I want something I get it for myself. I go to church only to show the old hens they don't get me down.
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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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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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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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