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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.

Louise Erdrich

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Louise Erdrich
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: June 7
Novelist
Poet
Short Story Writer
Writer
Little Falls
Minnesota
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Must
Feels
Love
Irritated
Writer
Ought

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We do know that no one gets wise enough to really understand the heart of another, though it is the task of our life to try.
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When women age into their power, no wind can upset them, no hand turn aside their knowledge, no fact can deflect their point of view.
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Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that.
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Numbers, time, inches, feet. All are just ploys for cutting nature down to size.
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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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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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Every so often something shatters like ice and we are in the river of our existence. We are aware.
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Things which do not grow and change are dead things.
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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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I stood there in the shadowed doorway thinking with my tears. Yes, tears can be thoughts, why not?
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Cold sinks in, there to stay. And people, they'll leave you, sure. There's no return to what was and no way back. There's just emptiness all around, and you in it, like singing up from the bottom of a well, like nothing else, until you harm yourself, until you are a mad dog biting yourself for sympathy. Because there is no relenting.
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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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We passed over in a sweep of sorrow that would persist into our small forever. We just keep going.
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Being a girl didn't really affect me until I entered junior high and had to wear skirts, curl my hair, and even get used to panty hose. However, my hatred of panty hose helped make me a writer who only wears comfortable clothes. I've successfully avoided panty hose for most of my life.
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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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I had a very free childhood and ranged around on my bicycle the way boys do. I had few restrictions.
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Love won't be tampered with, love won't go away. Push it to one side and it creeps to the other.
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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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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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Time is the water in which we live, and we breathe it like fish. ... Time pours into us and then pours out again. In between the two pourings we live our destiny.
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