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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
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Little Falls
Minnesota
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Sometimes a person's monstrosity seems superhuman.
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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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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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I am part of what she thinks is her illness, a symptom of which she thinks she has been cured. She, on the other hand, is what I was looking for.
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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.
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Columbus only discovered that he was in some new place. He didn't discover America.
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Her clothes were filled with safety pins and hidden tears.
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Veils of love which was only hate petrified by longing--that was me.
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In order to purify yourself, you have to understand yourself, Father Trais went on. Everything out in the world is also in you. Good, bad, evil, perfection, death, everything. So we study our souls.
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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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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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People forget the good, because the bad has more punch.
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Your life feels different on you, once you greet death and understand your heart's position.
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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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I think she is confused by the way I want her, which is like nobody else. I know this deep down. I want her in a new way, a way she's never been told about.
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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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I prefer to have some beliefs that don't make logical sense.
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Women don't realize how much store men set on the regularity of their habits. We absorb their comings and goings into our bodies, their rhythms into our bones.
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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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Every so often something shatters like ice and we are in the river of our existence. We are aware.
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