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History works itself out in the living.

Louise Erdrich

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Louise Erdrich
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: June 7
Novelist
Poet
Short Story Writer
Writer
Little Falls
Minnesota
Works
Living
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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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The only time I see the truth is when I cross my eyes.
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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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Society is like this card game here, cousin. We got dealt our hand before we were even born, and as we grow we have to play as best as we can.
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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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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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But if there was embellishment, it only had to do with the facts.
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The contents of a house can trigger all sorts of revisions to family history.
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To be of mixed blood is a great gift for a writer. I have one foot on tribal lands and one foot in middle-class life.
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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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When every inch of the world is known, sleep may be the only wilderness that we have left.
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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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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 greatest wisdom doesn't know itself. The richest plan is not to have one.
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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 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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I knew each person's delusion, the places their records had scratched, where the sounds repeated.
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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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I feel myself becoming less a person than a place, inhabited, a foreign land.
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It's impossible to write about Native life without humor-that's how people maintain sanity.
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