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Louise Erdrich
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: June 7
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Little Falls
Minnesota
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When women age into their power, no wind can upset them, no hand turn aside their knowledge, no fact can deflect their point of view.
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Women are strong, strong, terribly strong. We don't know how strong until we're pushing out our babies.
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What happens when you let an unsatisfactory present go on long enough? It becomes your entire history.
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Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that.
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Veils of love which was only hate petrified by longing--that was me.
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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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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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The only time I see the truth is when I cross my eyes.
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I can't imagine a home without an overflow of books. The point of books is to have way too many but to always feel you never have enough, or the right one at the right moment, but then sometimes to find you'd longed to fall asleep reading the Aspern Papers, and there it is.
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The universe is transformation.
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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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I prefer to have some beliefs that don't make logical sense.
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When we are young, the words are scattered all around us. As they are assembled by experience, so also are we, sentence by sentence, until the story takes shape.
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Columbus only discovered that he was in some new place. He didn't discover America.
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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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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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To think about love and passion and political correctness all together, it doesn't work. Art has to go way past the political to be effective.
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In order to purify yourself, you have to understand yourself, Father Trais went on. Everything out in the world is also in you. Good, bad, evil, perfection, death, everything. So we study our souls.
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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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I knew each person's delusion, the places their records had scratched, where the sounds repeated.
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