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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
Life
Entire
Becomes
Present
History
Happens
Past
Unsatisfactory
Enough
Unsatisfied
Long
Novelists

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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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There is a legacy of violence against native women that has gotten worse and worse over time.
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Your life feels different on you, once you greet death and understand your heart's position. You wear your life like a garment from the mission bundle sale ever after - lightly because you realize you never paid nothing for it, cherishing because you know you won't ever come by such a bargain again.
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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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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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Things which do not grow and change are dead things.
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I am part of what she thinks is her illness, a symptom of which she thinks she has been cured. She, on the other hand, is what I was looking for.
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