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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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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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I prefer to have some beliefs that don't make logical sense.
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I can't imagine a home without an overflow of books. The point of books is to have way too many but to always feel you never have enough, or the right one at the right moment, but then sometimes to find you'd longed to fall asleep reading the Aspern Papers, and there it is.
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The Internet, which seems now so embedded and personal and crucial to our lives, isn't at all - we really shouldn't think of it that way.
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Life is made up of three kinds of people -- those who live it, those afraid to, those in between.
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Numbers, time, inches, feet. All are just ploys for cutting nature down to size.
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If life's a joke, then suicide's a bad punch line.
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I thought how we might have to yell to be heard by Higher Power, but that's not saying it's not there. And that is faith for you. It's belief even when the gods don't deliver.
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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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But then as time passed, I learned the lesson that parents do early on. You fail sometimes. No matter how much you love your children, there are times you slip. There are moments you can't give, stutter, lose your temper, or simply lose face with the world, and you can't explain this to a child.
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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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I am at the bookstore a lot, but let my friends, the professional Birchbark Books staff, handle the day in and day out.
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I got well by talking. Death could not get a word in edgewise, grew discouraged, and traveled on.
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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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I knew each person's delusion, the places their records had scratched, where the sounds repeated.
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Time was rushing around me like water around a big wet rock. The only difference is, I was not so durable as stones. Very quickly I would be smoothed away.
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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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You know, some people fall right through the hole in their lives. Its invisible, but they come to it after time, never knowing where.
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A woman's body is the gate to this life. A man's body is the gate to the next life.
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Time is the water in which we live, and we breathe it like fish. ... Time pours into us and then pours out again. In between the two pourings we live our destiny.
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