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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
Bookstore
Bookstores
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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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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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I knew each person's delusion, the places their records had scratched, where the sounds repeated.
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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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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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We do know that no one gets wise enough to really understand the heart of another, though it is the task of our life to try.
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To love another another human in all of her splendor and imperfect perfection , it is a magnificent task...tremendous and foolish and human.
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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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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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You know, some people fall right through the hole in their lives. Its invisible, but they come to it after time, never knowing where.
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Society is like this card game here, cousin. We got dealt our hand before we were even born, and as we grow we have to play as best as we can.
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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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The greatest wisdom doesn't know itself. The richest plan is not to have one.
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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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If only I had discipline, but alas, it is only an obsessive-compulsive trait and the beauty of habit that causes me to return again and again to my work.
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Add there was that moment when my mother and father walked in the door disguised as old people. I thought the miles in the car had bent them, dulled their eyes, even grayed and whitened their hair and caused their hands and voices to tremble. At the same time, I found, as I rose form the chair, I'd gotten old along with them.
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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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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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The Internet, which seems now so embedded and personal and crucial to our lives, isn't at all - we really shouldn't think of it that way.
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When women age into their power, no wind can upset them, no hand turn aside their knowledge, no fact can deflect their point of view.
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