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He despised his body for its boring hungers, reflex anger its petty, obliterating rage. But now he'd become detached. He regarded his body with a tender regret. It was the thing his spirit had to haul.
Louise Erdrich
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Louise Erdrich
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: June 7
Novelist
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Little Falls
Minnesota
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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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Our songs travel the earth. We sing to one another. Not a single note is ever lost and no song is original. They all come from the same place and go back to a time when only the stones howled.
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The story comes around, pushing at our brains, and soon we are trying to ravel back to the beginning, trying to put families into order and make sense of things. But we start with one person, and soon another and another follows, and still another, until we are lost in the connections.
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Can you stop your mother from singing to you? Who would do such a thing?
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You know, some people fall right through the hole in their lives. Its invisible, but they come to it after time, never knowing where.
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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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Now that I knew fear, I also knew it was not permanent. As powerful as it was, its grip on me would loosen. It would pass.
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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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The Internet, which seems now so embedded and personal and crucial to our lives, isn't at all - we really shouldn't think of it that way.
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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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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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I had a very free childhood and ranged around on my bicycle the way boys do. I had few restrictions.
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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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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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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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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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