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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
Made
Kind
Life
People
Kinds
Afraid
Three
Live

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What happens when you let an unsatisfactory present go on long enough? It becomes your entire history.
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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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I prefer to have some beliefs that don't make logical sense.
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History works itself out in the living.
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The universe is transformation.
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We are never so poor that we cannot bless another human being, are we? So it is that every evil, whether moral or material, results in good. You'll see.
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It's impossible to write about Native life without humor-that's how people maintain sanity.
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I make very involved drawings, even little structures, and try using design to figure out the rhythm of a plot. If there are several narrators then a clue has to pop up in the first line. There have to be certain grammatical clues, or distinctive names.
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Be lovely and do no harm.
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The only time I see the truth is when I cross my eyes.
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If only I had discipline, but alas, it is only an obsessive-compulsive trait and the beauty of habit that causes me to return again and again to my work.
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Sometimes a person's monstrosity seems superhuman.
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The length of sky is just about the size of my ignorance. Pure and wide.
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Numbers, time, inches, feet. All are just ploys for cutting nature down to size.
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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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To be of mixed blood is a great gift for a writer. I have one foot on tribal lands and one foot in middle-class life.
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I might not be able to use the word hope, but I could certainly use the word optimism. I'm very optimistic. I don't feel that it helps to be pessimistic. At some point in my life I made a conscious decision that I would try to be optimistic - not blind to anything at all - but to always hear the way that had the best chance for happiness.
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To love another another human in all of her splendor and imperfect perfection , it is a magnificent task...tremendous and foolish and human.
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