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Right and wrong were shades of meaning, not sides of a coin.

Louise Erdrich

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Louise Erdrich
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: June 7
Novelist
Poet
Short Story Writer
Writer
Little Falls
Minnesota
Coins
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Meaning
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Wrong
Right
Shades
Coin

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But if there was embellishment, it only had to do with the facts.
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I feel myself becoming less a person than a place, inhabited, a foreign land.
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By writing I can live in ways that I could not survive.
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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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The universe is transformation.
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Your life feels different on you, once you greet death and understand your heart's position. You wear your life like a garment from the mission bundle sale ever after - lightly because you realize you never paid nothing for it, cherishing because you know you won't ever come by such a bargain again.
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Sometimes a person's monstrosity seems superhuman.
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We are never so poor that we cannot bless another human being, are we? So it is that every evil, whether moral or material, results in good. You'll see.
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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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Every so often something shatters like ice and we are in the river of our existence. We are aware.
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When we are young, the words are scattered all around us. As they are assembled by experience, so also are we, sentence by sentence, until the story takes shape.
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Ravens are the birds I'll miss most when I die. If only the darkness into which we must look were composed of the black light of their limber intelligence. If only we did not have to die at all. Instead, become ravens.
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Be lovely and do no harm.
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I don't pray. When I was young, I vowed I never would be caught begging God. If I want something I get it for myself. I go to church only to show the old hens they don't get me down.
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I prefer to have some beliefs that don't make logical sense.
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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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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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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 knew each person's delusion, the places their records had scratched, where the sounds repeated.
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