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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.
Louise Erdrich
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Louise Erdrich
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: June 7
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Women don't realize how much store men set on the regularity of their habits. We absorb their comings and goings into our bodies, their rhythms into our bones.
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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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Life is made up of three kinds of people -- those who live it, those afraid to, those in between.
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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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You really need to approach each book as if you have been a failure. . . . If you start to believe your flap-copy, you're finished as a writer.
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When we are young, the words are scattered all around us. As they are assembled by experience, so also are we, sentence by sentence, until the story takes shape.
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The contents of a house can trigger all sorts of revisions to family history.
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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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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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It's impossible to write about Native life without humor-that's how people maintain sanity.
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The greatest wisdom doesn't know itself. The richest plan is not to have one.
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People forget the good, because the bad has more punch.
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I think she is confused by the way I want her, which is like nobody else. I know this deep down. I want her in a new way, a way she's never been told about.
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Can you stop your mother from singing to you? Who would do such a thing?
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Be lovely and do no harm.
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Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that.
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Numbers, time, inches, feet. All are just ploys for cutting nature down to size.
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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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If life's a joke, then suicide's a bad punch line.
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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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