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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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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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I stood there in the shadowed doorway thinking with my tears. Yes, tears can be thoughts, why not?
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Now that I knew fear, I also knew it was not permanent. As powerful as it was, its grip on me would loosen. It would pass.
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When women age into their power, no wind can upset them, no hand turn aside their knowledge, no fact can deflect their point of view.
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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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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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Your life feels different on you, once you greet death and understand your heart's position. You wear your life like a garment from the mission bundle sale ever after - lightly because you realize you never paid nothing for it, cherishing because you know you won't ever come by such a bargain again.
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I prefer to have some beliefs that don't make logical sense.
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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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Right and wrong were shades of meaning, not sides of a coin.
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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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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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Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that.
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It is easy to take away the world that we think is so permanent and reliable.
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I had a very free childhood and ranged around on my bicycle the way boys do. I had few restrictions.
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We passed over in a sweep of sorrow that would persist into our small forever. We just keep going.
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