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I think she is confused by the way I want her, which is like nobody else. I know this deep down. I want her in a new way, a way she's never been told about.

Louise Erdrich

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Louise Erdrich
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: June 7
Novelist
Poet
Short Story Writer
Writer
Little Falls
Minnesota
Told
Else
Way
Never
Love
Think
Confused
Thinking
Deep
Like
Nobody

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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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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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I had a very free childhood and ranged around on my bicycle the way boys do. I had few restrictions.
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What is this life but the sound of an appalling love.
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People forget the good, because the bad has more punch.
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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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The greatest wisdom doesn't know itself. The richest plan is not to have one.
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Your life feels different on you, once you greet death and understand your heart's position.
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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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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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Here I am, where I ought to be. A writer must have a place where he or she feels this, the place to love and be irritated with.
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