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Every so often something shatters like ice and we are in the river of our existence. We are aware.

Louise Erdrich

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Louise Erdrich
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: June 7
Novelist
Poet
Short Story Writer
Writer
Little Falls
Minnesota
Every
Shatters
Something
Ice
Like
River
Chaos
Rivers
Aware
Existence
Often

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By writing I can live in ways that I could not survive.
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The only time I see the truth is when I cross my eyes.
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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 got well by talking. Death could not get a word in edgewise, grew discouraged, and traveled on.
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