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I thought how we might have to yell to be heard by Higher Power, but that's not saying it's not there. And that is faith for you. It's belief even when the gods don't deliver.
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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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 prefer to have some beliefs that don't make logical sense.
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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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If only I had discipline, but alas, it is only an obsessive-compulsive trait and the beauty of habit that causes me to return again and again to my work.
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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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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 had a very free childhood and ranged around on my bicycle the way boys do. I had few restrictions.
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It is easy to take away the world that we think is so permanent and reliable.
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Her clothes were filled with safety pins and hidden tears.
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We passed over in a sweep of sorrow that would persist into our small forever. We just keep going.
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Columbus only discovered that he was in some new place. He didn't discover America.
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Things which do not grow and change are dead things.
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To love another another human in all of her splendor and imperfect perfection , it is a magnificent task...tremendous and foolish and human.
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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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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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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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People forget the good, because the bad has more punch.
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But if there was embellishment, it only had to do with the facts.
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Can you stop your mother from singing to you? Who would do such a thing?
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When we are young, the words are scattered all around us. As they are assembled by experience, so also are we, sentence by sentence, until the story takes shape.
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