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Louise Erdrich
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: June 7
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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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I thought how we might have to yell to be heard by Higher Power, but that's not saying it's not there. And that is faith for you. It's belief even when the gods don't deliver.
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Columbus only discovered that he was in some new place. He didn't discover America.
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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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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 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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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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To sew is to pray. Men don't understand this. They see the whole but they don't see the stitches. They don't see the speech of the creator in the work of the needle.
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Time was rushing around me like water around a big wet rock. The only difference is, I was not so durable as stones. Very quickly I would be smoothed away.
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We passed over in a sweep of sorrow that would persist into our small forever. We just keep going.
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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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Sometimes a person's monstrosity seems superhuman.
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It's impossible to write about Native life without humor-that's how people maintain sanity.
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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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I am at the bookstore a lot, but let my friends, the professional Birchbark Books staff, handle the day in and day out.
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History works itself out in the living.
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But then as time passed, I learned the lesson that parents do early on. You fail sometimes. No matter how much you love your children, there are times you slip. There are moments you can't give, stutter, lose your temper, or simply lose face with the world, and you can't explain this to a child.
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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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What happens when you let an unsatisfactory present go on long enough? It becomes your entire history.
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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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