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Louise Erdrich
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: June 7
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We do know that no one gets wise enough to really understand the heart of another, though it is the task of our life to try.
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Things which do not grow and change are dead things.
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Can you stop your mother from singing to you? Who would do such a thing?
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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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What happens when you let an unsatisfactory present go on long enough? It becomes your entire history.
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Time is the water in which we live, and we breathe it like fish. ... Time pours into us and then pours out again. In between the two pourings we live our destiny.
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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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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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The only time I see the truth is when I cross my eyes.
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The length of sky is just about the size of my ignorance. Pure and wide.
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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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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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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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To love another another human in all of her splendor and imperfect perfection , it is a magnificent task...tremendous and foolish and human.
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Here is the most telling fact: you wish to possess me. Here is another fact: I loved you and let you think you could.
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If life's a joke, then suicide's a bad punch line.
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I think one of the most fertile, unexplored areas for poets and fiction writers is the world of science. I become overwhelmed by the science world.
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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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Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that.
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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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