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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.
Louise Erdrich
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Louise Erdrich
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: June 7
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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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Women are strong, strong, terribly strong. We don't know how strong until we're pushing out our babies.
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If life's a joke, then suicide's a bad punch line.
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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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You really need to approach each book as if you have been a failure. . . . If you start to believe your flap-copy, you're finished as a writer.
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History works itself out in the living.
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Society is like this card game here, cousin. We got dealt our hand before we were even born, and as we grow we have to play as best as we can.
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I stood there in the shadowed doorway thinking with my tears. Yes, tears can be thoughts, why not?
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By writing I can live in ways that I could not survive.
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The greatest wisdom doesn't know itself. The richest plan is not to have one.
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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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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 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 thought how we might have to yell to be heard by Higher Power, but that's not saying it's not there. And that is faith for you. It's belief even when the gods don't deliver.
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Her clothes were filled with safety pins and hidden tears.
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I truly think that you can't go and stalk your material, you have to leave the door open and whatever chooses you, chooses you. You can't go and wrestle it to the ground.
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Things which do not grow and change are dead things.
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What is this life but the sound of an appalling love.
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