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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.

Louise Erdrich

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Louise Erdrich
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: June 7
Novelist
Poet
Short Story Writer
Writer
Little Falls
Minnesota
Truly
Stalk
Doors
Wrestle
Leave
Stalking
Open
Chooses
Whatever
Material
Think
Ground
Thinking
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Materials

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