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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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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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The length of sky is just about the size of my ignorance. Pure and wide.
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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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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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At times the whole sky was ringed in shooting points and puckers of light gathering and falling, pulsing, fading, rhythmical as breathing. All of a piece. As if the sky were a pattern of nerves and our thought and memories traveled across it. As if the sky were one gigantic memory for us all.
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I feel myself becoming less a person than a place, inhabited, a foreign land.
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Freedom, I found is not only in the running but in the heart, the mind, the hands.
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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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I got well by talking. Death could not get a word in edgewise, grew discouraged, and traveled on.
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Your life feels different on you, once you greet death and understand your heart's position.
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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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If life's a joke, then suicide's a bad punch line.
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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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The universe is transformation.
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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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Things which do not grow and change are dead things.
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Sometimes a person's monstrosity seems superhuman.
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The story comes around, pushing at our brains, and soon we are trying to ravel back to the beginning, trying to put families into order and make sense of things. But we start with one person, and soon another and another follows, and still another, until we are lost in the connections.
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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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He despised his body for its boring hungers, reflex anger its petty, obliterating rage. But now he'd become detached. He regarded his body with a tender regret. It was the thing his spirit had to haul.
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