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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
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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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Now that I knew fear, I also knew it was not permanent. As powerful as it was, its grip on me would loosen. It would pass.
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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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Women are strong, strong, terribly strong. We don't know how strong until we're pushing out our babies.
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All of our actions have in their doing the seed of their undoing. ... That in her creation of her children there should be the unspeakable promise of their death, for by their birth she had created mortal beings.
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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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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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Your life feels different on you, once you greet death and understand your heart's position.
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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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I feel myself becoming less a person than a place, inhabited, a foreign land.
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We all got holes in our lives. Nobody dies in a perfect garment.
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Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that.
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The only time I see the truth is when I cross my eyes.
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Every so often something shatters like ice and we are in the river of our existence. We are aware.
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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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I had a very free childhood and ranged around on my bicycle the way boys do. I had few restrictions.
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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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I stood there in the shadowed doorway thinking with my tears. Yes, tears can be thoughts, why not?
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I want to remember what bullshit looks like when weapons of mass destruction are diagrammed out and whacko intelligence is delivered in an ominous way to strike fear into people and especially to pull on the idealism and zeal of the young.
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