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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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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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I am part of what she thinks is her illness, a symptom of which she thinks she has been cured. She, on the other hand, is what I was looking for.
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The length of sky is just about the size of my ignorance. Pure and wide.
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The contents of a house can trigger all sorts of revisions to family history.
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Being a girl didn't really affect me until I entered junior high and had to wear skirts, curl my hair, and even get used to panty hose. However, my hatred of panty hose helped make me a writer who only wears comfortable clothes. I've successfully avoided panty hose for most of my life.
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Numbers, time, inches, feet. All are just ploys for cutting nature down to size.
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The universe is transformation.
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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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Women don't realize how much store men set on the regularity of their habits. We absorb their comings and goings into our bodies, their rhythms into our bones.
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Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that.
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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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Your life feels different on you, once you greet death and understand your heart's position.
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I knew each person's delusion, the places their records had scratched, where the sounds repeated.
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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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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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If life's a joke, then suicide's a bad punch line.
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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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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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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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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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