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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
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Live

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To sew is to pray. Men don't understand this. They see the whole but they don't see the stitches. They don't see the speech of the creator in the work of the needle.
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Right and wrong were shades of meaning, not sides of a coin.
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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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But if there was embellishment, it only had to do with the facts.
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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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Columbus only discovered that he was in some new place. He didn't discover America.
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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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If life's a joke, then suicide's a bad punch line.
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The greatest wisdom doesn't know itself. The richest plan is not to have one.
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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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Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that.
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You never know where you're going to find the same thoughts in another brain, but when it happens you know it right off, just like you were connected by a small electrical wire that suddenly glows red hot and sparks.
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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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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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When every inch of the world is known, sleep may be the only wilderness that we have left.
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What happens when you let an unsatisfactory present go on long enough? It becomes your entire history.
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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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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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Here is the most telling fact: you wish to possess me. Here is another fact: I loved you and let you think you could.
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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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