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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.
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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Veils of love which was only hate petrified by longing--that was me.
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I truly think that you can't go and stalk your material, you have to leave the door open and whatever chooses you, chooses you. You can't go and wrestle it to the ground.
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They were so strong in their beliefs that there came a time when it hardly mattered what exactly those beliefs were they all fused into a single stubbornness.
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The length of sky is just about the size of my ignorance. Pure and wide.
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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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Freedom, I found is not only in the running but in the heart, the mind, the hands.
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By writing I can live in ways that I could not survive.
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We all got holes in our lives. Nobody dies in a perfect garment.
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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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Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that.
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I prefer to have some beliefs that don't make logical sense.
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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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Columbus only discovered that he was in some new place. He didn't discover America.
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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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Things which do not grow and change are dead things.
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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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History works itself out in the living.
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Society is like this card game here, cousin. We got dealt our hand before we were even born, and as we grow we have to play as best as we can.
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