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The greatest wisdom doesn't know itself. The richest plan is not to have one.

Louise Erdrich

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Louise Erdrich
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: June 7
Novelist
Poet
Short Story Writer
Writer
Little Falls
Minnesota
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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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Her mind was present because she was always gone. Her hands were filled because they grasped the meaning of empty. Life was simple. Her husband returned and she served him with indifferent patience this time. When he asked what had happened to her heat for him, she gestured to the west. The sun was setting. The sky was a body of fire.
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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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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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Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won't either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart.
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Cold sinks in, there to stay. And people, they'll leave you, sure. There's no return to what was and no way back. There's just emptiness all around, and you in it, like singing up from the bottom of a well, like nothing else, until you harm yourself, until you are a mad dog biting yourself for sympathy. Because there is no relenting.
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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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I got well by talking. Death could not get a word in edgewise, grew discouraged, and traveled on.
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The only time I see the truth is when I cross my eyes.
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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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Can you stop your mother from singing to you? Who would do such a thing?
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If only I had discipline, but alas, it is only an obsessive-compulsive trait and the beauty of habit that causes me to return again and again to my work.
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Your life feels different on you, once you greet death and understand your heart's position.
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People forget the good, because the bad has more punch.
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The Internet, which seems now so embedded and personal and crucial to our lives, isn't at all - we really shouldn't think of it that way.
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Her clothes were filled with safety pins and hidden tears.
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I prefer to have some beliefs that don't make logical sense.
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Columbus only discovered that he was in some new place. He didn't discover America.
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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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But if there was embellishment, it only had to do with the facts.
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