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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.

Louise Erdrich

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Louise Erdrich
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: June 7
Novelist
Poet
Short Story Writer
Writer
Little Falls
Minnesota
Way
Book
Books
Always
Without
Reading
Never
Enough
Point
Longed
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Moment
Overflow
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Fall
Asleep
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Papers
Sometimes
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I feel myself becoming less a person than a place, inhabited, a foreign land.
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Numbers, time, inches, feet. All are just ploys for cutting nature down to size.
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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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