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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
Professional
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Books
Friends
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Bookstore
Bookstores
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Right and wrong were shades of meaning, not sides of a coin.
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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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I stood there in the shadowed doorway thinking with my tears. Yes, tears can be thoughts, why not?
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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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Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that.
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I feel myself becoming less a person than a place, inhabited, a foreign land.
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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.
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Things which do not grow and change are dead things.
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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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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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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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But then as time passed, I learned the lesson that parents do early on. You fail sometimes. No matter how much you love your children, there are times you slip. There are moments you can't give, stutter, lose your temper, or simply lose face with the world, and you can't explain this to a child.
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Sometimes a person's monstrosity seems superhuman.
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I think one of the most fertile, unexplored areas for poets and fiction writers is the world of science. I become overwhelmed by the science world.
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The only time I see the truth is when I cross my eyes.
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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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People forget the good, because the bad has more punch.
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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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Women are strong, strong, terribly strong. We don't know how strong until we're pushing out our babies.
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I prefer to have some beliefs that don't make logical sense.
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