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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
Poet
Short Story Writer
Writer
Little Falls
Minnesota
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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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What happens when you let an unsatisfactory present go on long enough? It becomes your entire history.
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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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I feel myself becoming less a person than a place, inhabited, a foreign land.
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You see I thought love got easier over the years so it didn't hurt so bad when it hurt, or feel so good when it felt good. I thought it smoothed out and old people hardly noticed it. I thought it curled up and died, I guess. Now I saw it rear up like a whip and lash.
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Our songs travel the earth. We sing to one another. Not a single note is ever lost and no song is original. They all come from the same place and go back to a time when only the stones howled.
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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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Be lovely and do no harm.
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Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won't either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart.
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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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But if there was embellishment, it only had to do with the facts.
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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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I prefer to have some beliefs that don't make logical sense.
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I don't pray. When I was young, I vowed I never would be caught begging God. If I want something I get it for myself. I go to church only to show the old hens they don't get me down.
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People forget the good, because the bad has more punch.
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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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I spend my time dwelling on revenge and try to deal with the monsters crawling out of the ashes.
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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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The only time I see the truth is when I cross my eyes.
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The universe is transformation.
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