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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
Punch
Forget
Evil
Good
People

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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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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 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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It's impossible to write about Native life without humor-that's how people maintain sanity.
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The length of sky is just about the size of my ignorance. Pure and wide.
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But then as time passed, I learned the lesson that parents do early on. You fail sometimes. No matter how much you love your children, there are times you slip. There are moments you can't give, stutter, lose your temper, or simply lose face with the world, and you can't explain this to a child.
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I feel myself becoming less a person than a place, inhabited, a foreign land.
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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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To think about love and passion and political correctness all together, it doesn't work. Art has to go way past the political to be effective.
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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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It is easy to take away the world that we think is so permanent and reliable.
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But if there was embellishment, it only had to do with the facts.
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We all got holes in our lives. Nobody dies in a perfect garment.
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I have brothers and was a tomboy, if that's still a designation. It wasn't a stretch for me to think and write as a 13-year-old boy - it is freeing.
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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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I think one of the most fertile, unexplored areas for poets and fiction writers is the world of science. I become overwhelmed by the science world.
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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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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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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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History works itself out in the living.
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