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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.

Louise Erdrich

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Louise Erdrich
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: June 7
Novelist
Poet
Short Story Writer
Writer
Little Falls
Minnesota
Another
Hot
Happens
Red
Find
Suddenly
Right
Connected
Going
Thoughts
Glows
Never
Small
Electrical
Like
Brain
Wire
Understanding
Sparks

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If life's a joke, then suicide's a bad punch line.
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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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Her mind was present because she was always gone. Her hands were filled because they grasped the meaning of empty. Life was simple. Her husband returned and she served him with indifferent patience this time. When he asked what had happened to her heat for him, she gestured to the west. The sun was setting. The sky was a body of fire.
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Be lovely and do no harm.
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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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I work really out of mythology, so often I work out of a story that has remained lodged inside somehow, or I work out of history, you know, out of a sense of historical inevitability with characters.
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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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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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Being a girl didn't really affect me until I entered junior high and had to wear skirts, curl my hair, and even get used to panty hose. However, my hatred of panty hose helped make me a writer who only wears comfortable clothes. I've successfully avoided panty hose for most of my life.
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The universe is transformation.
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What is this life but the sound of an appalling love.
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I knew each person's delusion, the places their records had scratched, where the sounds repeated.
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