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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
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Novelists
Life
Entire
Becomes
Present
History
Happens
Past
Unsatisfactory
Enough
Unsatisfied

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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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The greatest wisdom doesn't know itself. The richest plan is not to have one.
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You know, some people fall right through the hole in their lives. Its invisible, but they come to it after time, never knowing where.
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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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When every inch of the world is known, sleep may be the only wilderness that we have left.
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People forget the good, because the bad has more punch.
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I make very involved drawings, even little structures, and try using design to figure out the rhythm of a plot. If there are several narrators then a clue has to pop up in the first line. There have to be certain grammatical clues, or distinctive names.
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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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By writing I can live in ways that I could not survive.
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When small towns find they cannot harm the strangest of their members, when eccentrics show resilience, they are eventually embraced and even cherished.
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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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There is a legacy of violence against native women that has gotten worse and worse over time.
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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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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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Veils of love which was only hate petrified by longing--that was me.
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I had a very free childhood and ranged around on my bicycle the way boys do. I had few restrictions.
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You see I thought love got easier over the years so it didn't hurt so bad when it hurt, or feel so good when it felt good. I thought it smoothed out and old people hardly noticed it. I thought it curled up and died, I guess. Now I saw it rear up like a whip and lash.
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Numbers, time, inches, feet. All are just ploys for cutting nature down to size.
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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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