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People forget the good, because the bad has more punch.

Louise Erdrich

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Louise Erdrich
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: June 7
Novelist
Poet
Short Story Writer
Writer
Little Falls
Minnesota
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Forget
Evil
Good
People

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Women are strong, strong, terribly strong. We don't know how strong until we are pushing out our babies. We are too often treated like babies having babies when we should be in training, like acolytes, novices to high priestesshood, like serious applicants for the space program.
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The only time I see the truth is when I cross my eyes.
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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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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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Her clothes were filled with safety pins and hidden tears.
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But if there was embellishment, it only had to do with the facts.
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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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Numbers, time, inches, feet. All are just ploys for cutting nature down to size.
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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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We all got holes in our lives. Nobody dies in a perfect garment.
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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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Every so often something shatters like ice and we are in the river of our existence. We are aware.
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Be lovely and do no harm.
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It's impossible to write about Native life without humor-that's how people maintain sanity.
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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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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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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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Right and wrong were shades of meaning, not sides of a coin.
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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.
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