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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.
Louise Erdrich
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Louise Erdrich
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: June 7
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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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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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If life's a joke, then suicide's a bad punch line.
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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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Right and wrong were shades of meaning, not sides of a coin.
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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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Ravens are the birds I'll miss most when I die. If only the darkness into which we must look were composed of the black light of their limber intelligence. If only we did not have to die at all. Instead, become ravens.
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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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Numbers, time, inches, feet. All are just ploys for cutting nature down to size.
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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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When we are young, the words are scattered all around us. As they are assembled by experience, so also are we, sentence by sentence, until the story takes shape.
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I have brothers and was a tomboy, if that's still a designation. It wasn't a stretch for me to think and write as a 13-year-old boy - it is freeing.
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Our songs travel the earth. We sing to one another. Not a single note is ever lost and no song is original. They all come from the same place and go back to a time when only the stones howled.
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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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Be lovely and do no harm.
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I want to remember what bullshit looks like when weapons of mass destruction are diagrammed out and whacko intelligence is delivered in an ominous way to strike fear into people and especially to pull on the idealism and zeal of the young.
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i want to hear what's happened to you, she said evenly after a while. she gestured in the direction, down river, of the butcher shop. it's just that there is nowhere else to start, she said gently. niether of us is the same. but i'm different because of small, good, manageable things. you're different because ... things i don't know.
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Can you stop your mother from singing to you? Who would do such a thing?
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Your life feels different on you, once you greet death and understand your heart's position.
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Columbus only discovered that he was in some new place. He didn't discover America.
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