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Louise Erdrich
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: June 7
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Little Falls
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To be of mixed blood is a great gift for a writer. I have one foot on tribal lands and one foot in middle-class life.
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I work really out of mythology, so often I work out of a story that has remained lodged inside somehow, or I work out of history, you know, out of a sense of historical inevitability with characters.
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The story comes around, pushing at our brains, and soon we are trying to ravel back to the beginning, trying to put families into order and make sense of things. But we start with one person, and soon another and another follows, and still another, until we are lost in the connections.
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Freedom, I found is not only in the running but in the heart, the mind, the hands.
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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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I spend my time dwelling on revenge and try to deal with the monsters crawling out of the ashes.
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Being a girl didn't really affect me until I entered junior high and had to wear skirts, curl my hair, and even get used to panty hose. However, my hatred of panty hose helped make me a writer who only wears comfortable clothes. I've successfully avoided panty hose for most of my life.
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The greatest wisdom doesn't know itself. The richest plan is not to have one.
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I want to remember what bullshit looks like when weapons of mass destruction are diagrammed out and whacko intelligence is delivered in an ominous way to strike fear into people and especially to pull on the idealism and zeal of the young.
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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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We all got holes in our lives. Nobody dies in a perfect garment.
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The length of sky is just about the size of my ignorance. Pure and wide.
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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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Every so often something shatters like ice and we are in the river of our existence. We are aware.
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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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Right and wrong were shades of meaning, not sides of a coin.
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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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Our songs travel the earth. We sing to one another. Not a single note is ever lost and no song is original. They all come from the same place and go back to a time when only the stones howled.
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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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Women don't realize how much store men set on the regularity of their habits. We absorb their comings and goings into our bodies, their rhythms into our bones.
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