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Life is made up of three kinds of people -- those who live it, those afraid to, those in between.

Louise Erdrich

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Louise Erdrich
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: June 7
Novelist
Poet
Short Story Writer
Writer
Little Falls
Minnesota
People
Kinds
Afraid
Three
Live
Made
Kind
Life

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Numbers, time, inches, feet. All are just ploys for cutting nature down to size.
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I stood there in the shadowed doorway thinking with my tears. Yes, tears can be thoughts, why not?
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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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To think about love and passion and political correctness all together, it doesn't work. Art has to go way past the political to be effective.
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To sew is to pray. Men don't understand this. They see the whole but they don't see the stitches. They don't see the speech of the creator in the work of the needle.
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The story comes around, pushing at our brains, and soon we are trying to ravel back to the beginning, trying to put families into order and make sense of things. But we start with one person, and soon another and another follows, and still another, until we are lost in the connections.
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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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Her clothes were filled with safety pins and hidden tears.
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Women are strong, strong, terribly strong. We don't know how strong until we are pushing out our babies. We are too often treated like babies having babies when we should be in training, like acolytes, novices to high priestesshood, like serious applicants for the space program.
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Your life feels different on you, once you greet death and understand your heart's position.
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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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Can you stop your mother from singing to you? Who would do such a thing?
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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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What is this life but the sound of an appalling love.
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There is a legacy of violence against native women that has gotten worse and worse over time.
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Here is the most telling fact: you wish to possess me. Here is another fact: I loved you and let you think you could.
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When small towns find they cannot harm the strangest of their members, when eccentrics show resilience, they are eventually embraced and even cherished.
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Add there was that moment when my mother and father walked in the door disguised as old people. I thought the miles in the car had bent them, dulled their eyes, even grayed and whitened their hair and caused their hands and voices to tremble. At the same time, I found, as I rose form the chair, I'd gotten old along with them.
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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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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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