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By writing I can live in ways that I could not survive.

Louise Erdrich

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Louise Erdrich
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: June 7
Novelist
Poet
Short Story Writer
Writer
Little Falls
Minnesota
Writing
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Survive
Ways
Live

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Right and wrong were shades of meaning, not sides of a coin.
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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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I work really out of mythology, so often I work out of a story that has remained lodged inside somehow, or I work out of history, you know, out of a sense of historical inevitability with characters.
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There is a legacy of violence against native women that has gotten worse and worse over time.
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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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Women are strong, strong, terribly strong. We don't know how strong until we're pushing out our babies.
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I spend my time dwelling on revenge and try to deal with the monsters crawling out of the ashes.
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You see I thought love got easier over the years so it didn't hurt so bad when it hurt, or feel so good when it felt good. I thought it smoothed out and old people hardly noticed it. I thought it curled up and died, I guess. Now I saw it rear up like a whip and lash.
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Life is made up of three kinds of people -- those who live it, those afraid to, those in between.
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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 prefer to have some beliefs that don't make logical sense.
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History works itself out in the living.
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The contents of a house can trigger all sorts of revisions to family history.
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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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Be lovely and do no harm.
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I can't imagine a home without an overflow of books. The point of books is to have way too many but to always feel you never have enough, or the right one at the right moment, but then sometimes to find you'd longed to fall asleep reading the Aspern Papers, and there it is.
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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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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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The only time I see the truth is when I cross my eyes.
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What is this life but the sound of an appalling love.
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