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

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What is this life but the sound of an appalling love.
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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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