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Sometimes a person's monstrosity seems superhuman.

Louise Erdrich

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Louise Erdrich
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: June 7
Novelist
Poet
Short Story Writer
Writer
Little Falls
Minnesota
Sometimes
Monstrosity
Superhuman
Seems
Persons
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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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Things which do not grow and change are dead things.
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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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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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They were so strong in their beliefs that there came a time when it hardly mattered what exactly those beliefs were they all fused into a single stubbornness.
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