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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
Think
Confused
Thinking
Deep
Like
Nobody
Told
Else
Way
Never
Love

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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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Women are strong, strong, terribly strong. We don't know how strong until we're pushing out our babies.
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The universe is transformation.
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A woman's body is the gate to this life. A man's body is the gate to the next life.
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All of our actions have in their doing the seed of their undoing. ... That in her creation of her children there should be the unspeakable promise of their death, for by their birth she had created mortal beings.
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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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People forget the good, because the bad has more punch.
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It is easy to take away the world that we think is so permanent and reliable.
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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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I might not be able to use the word hope, but I could certainly use the word optimism. I'm very optimistic. I don't feel that it helps to be pessimistic. At some point in my life I made a conscious decision that I would try to be optimistic - not blind to anything at all - but to always hear the way that had the best chance for happiness.
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Sometimes a person's monstrosity seems superhuman.
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But if there was embellishment, it only had to do with the facts.
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They were so strong in their beliefs that there came a time when it hardly mattered what exactly those beliefs were they all fused into a single stubbornness.
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Be lovely and do no harm.
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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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What is this life but the sound of an appalling love.
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Add there was that moment when my mother and father walked in the door disguised as old people. I thought the miles in the car had bent them, dulled their eyes, even grayed and whitened their hair and caused their hands and voices to tremble. At the same time, I found, as I rose form the chair, I'd gotten old along with them.
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By writing I can live in ways that I could not survive.
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You see I thought love got easier over the years so it didn't hurt so bad when it hurt, or feel so good when it felt good. I thought it smoothed out and old people hardly noticed it. I thought it curled up and died, I guess. Now I saw it rear up like a whip and lash.
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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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