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I spend my time dwelling on revenge and try to deal with the monsters crawling out of the ashes.

Louise Erdrich

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Louise Erdrich
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: June 7
Novelist
Poet
Short Story Writer
Writer
Little Falls
Minnesota
Revenge
Spend
Deal
Deals
Trying
Crawling
Time
Dwelling
Ashes
Monsters

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What is this life but the sound of an appalling love.
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The greatest wisdom doesn't know itself. The richest plan is not to have one.
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Right and wrong were shades of meaning, not sides of a coin.
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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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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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I knew each person's delusion, the places their records had scratched, where the sounds repeated.
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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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But if there was embellishment, it only had to do with the facts.
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Cold sinks in, there to stay. And people, they'll leave you, sure. There's no return to what was and no way back. There's just emptiness all around, and you in it, like singing up from the bottom of a well, like nothing else, until you harm yourself, until you are a mad dog biting yourself for sympathy. Because there is no relenting.
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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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Women are strong, strong, terribly strong. We don't know how strong until we're pushing out our babies.
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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 got well by talking. Death could not get a word in edgewise, grew discouraged, and traveled on.
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