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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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Wrong
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What is this life but the sound of an appalling love.
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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 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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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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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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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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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 contents of a house can trigger all sorts of revisions to family history.
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When every inch of the world is known, sleep may be the only wilderness that we have left.
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It is easy to take away the world that we think is so permanent and reliable.
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Can you stop your mother from singing to you? Who would do such a thing?
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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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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 are pushing out our babies. We are too often treated like babies having babies when we should be in training, like acolytes, novices to high priestesshood, like serious applicants for the space program.
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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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People forget the good, because the bad has more punch.
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You never know where you're going to find the same thoughts in another brain, but when it happens you know it right off, just like you were connected by a small electrical wire that suddenly glows red hot and sparks.
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Now that I knew fear, I also knew it was not permanent. As powerful as it was, its grip on me would loosen. It would pass.
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Her clothes were filled with safety pins and hidden tears.
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I knew each person's delusion, the places their records had scratched, where the sounds repeated.
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