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I am at the bookstore a lot, but let my friends, the professional Birchbark Books staff, handle the day in and day out.

Louise Erdrich

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Louise Erdrich
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: June 7
Novelist
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Little Falls
Minnesota
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To think about love and passion and political correctness all together, it doesn't work. Art has to go way past the political to be effective.
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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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I had a very free childhood and ranged around on my bicycle the way boys do. I had few restrictions.
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Columbus only discovered that he was in some new place. He didn't discover America.
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I make very involved drawings, even little structures, and try using design to figure out the rhythm of a plot. If there are several narrators then a clue has to pop up in the first line. There have to be certain grammatical clues, or distinctive names.
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Your life feels different on you, once you greet death and understand your heart's position. You wear your life like a garment from the mission bundle sale ever after - lightly because you realize you never paid nothing for it, cherishing because you know you won't ever come by such a bargain again.
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Veils of love which was only hate petrified by longing--that was me.
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i want to hear what's happened to you, she said evenly after a while. she gestured in the direction, down river, of the butcher shop. it's just that there is nowhere else to start, she said gently. niether of us is the same. but i'm different because of small, good, manageable things. you're different because ... things i don't know.
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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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Be lovely and do no harm.
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To sew is to pray. Men don't understand this. They see the whole but they don't see the stitches. They don't see the speech of the creator in the work of the needle.
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A woman's body is the gate to this life. A man's body is the gate to the next life.
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We are never so poor that we cannot bless another human being, are we? So it is that every evil, whether moral or material, results in good. You'll see.
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I knew each person's delusion, the places their records had scratched, where the sounds repeated.
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But if there was embellishment, it only had to do with the facts.
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I can't imagine a home without an overflow of books. The point of books is to have way too many but to always feel you never have enough, or the right one at the right moment, but then sometimes to find you'd longed to fall asleep reading the Aspern Papers, and there it is.
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People forget the good, because the bad has more punch.
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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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There is a legacy of violence against native women that has gotten worse and worse over time.
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We passed over in a sweep of sorrow that would persist into our small forever. We just keep going.
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