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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
Feet
Nature
Time
Ploy
Inches
Size
Cutting
Numbers

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Time was rushing around me like water around a big wet rock. The only difference is, I was not so durable as stones. Very quickly I would be smoothed away.
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I prefer to have some beliefs that don't make logical sense.
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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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I might not be able to use the word hope, but I could certainly use the word optimism. I'm very optimistic. I don't feel that it helps to be pessimistic. At some point in my life I made a conscious decision that I would try to be optimistic - not blind to anything at all - but to always hear the way that had the best chance for happiness.
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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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The greatest wisdom doesn't know itself. The richest plan is not to have one.
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Sometimes a person's monstrosity seems superhuman.
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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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Love won't be tampered with, love won't go away. Push it to one side and it creeps to the other.
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Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that.
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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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You see I thought love got easier over the years so it didn't hurt so bad when it hurt, or feel so good when it felt good. I thought it smoothed out and old people hardly noticed it. I thought it curled up and died, I guess. Now I saw it rear up like a whip and lash.
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The Internet, which seems now so embedded and personal and crucial to our lives, isn't at all - we really shouldn't think of it that way.
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I knew each person's delusion, the places their records had scratched, where the sounds repeated.
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I got well by talking. Death could not get a word in edgewise, grew discouraged, and traveled on.
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By writing I can live in ways that I could not survive.
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Columbus only discovered that he was in some new place. He didn't discover America.
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We all got holes in our lives. Nobody dies in a perfect garment.
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A woman's body is the gate to this life. A man's body is the gate to the next life.
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Women are strong, strong, terribly strong. We don't know how strong until we're pushing out our babies.
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