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Be lovely and do no harm.

Louise Erdrich

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Louise Erdrich
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: June 7
Novelist
Poet
Short Story Writer
Writer
Little Falls
Minnesota
Lovely
Harm

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Women are strong, strong, terribly strong. We don't know how strong until we're pushing out our babies.
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Things which do not grow and change are dead things.
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I knew each person's delusion, the places their records had scratched, where the sounds repeated.
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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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I feel myself becoming less a person than a place, inhabited, a foreign land.
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Here I am, where I ought to be. A writer must have a place where he or she feels this, the place to love and be irritated with.
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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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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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What is this life but the sound of an appalling love.
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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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Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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If life's a joke, then suicide's a bad punch line.
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You never know where you're going to find the same thoughts in another brain, but when it happens you know it right off, just like you were connected by a small electrical wire that suddenly glows red hot and sparks.
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I truly think that you can't go and stalk your material, you have to leave the door open and whatever chooses you, chooses you. You can't go and wrestle it to the ground.
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