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Numbers, time, inches, feet. All are just ploys for cutting nature down to size.

Louise Erdrich

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Louise Erdrich
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: June 7
Novelist
Poet
Short Story Writer
Writer
Little Falls
Minnesota
Inches
Size
Cutting
Numbers
Feet
Nature
Time
Ploy

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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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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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I knew each person's delusion, the places their records had scratched, where the sounds repeated.
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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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To sew is to pray. Men don't understand this. They see the whole but they don't see the stitches. They don't see the speech of the creator in the work of the needle.
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