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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
Nature
Time
Ploy
Inches
Size
Cutting
Numbers
Feet

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But if there was embellishment, it only had to do with the facts.
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I spend my time dwelling on revenge and try to deal with the monsters crawling out of the ashes.
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What is this life but the sound of an appalling love.
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Time is the water in which we live, and we breathe it like fish. ... Time pours into us and then pours out again. In between the two pourings we live our destiny.
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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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When every inch of the world is known, sleep may be the only wilderness that we have left.
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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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Can you stop your mother from singing to you? Who would do such a thing?
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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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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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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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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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