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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
Staff
Professional
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Books
Friends
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Bookstore
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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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The greatest wisdom doesn't know itself. The richest plan is not to have one.
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Things which do not grow and change are dead things.
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The only time I see the truth is when I cross my eyes.
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We all got holes in our lives. Nobody dies in a perfect garment.
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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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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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Columbus only discovered that he was in some new place. He didn't discover America.
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I thought how we might have to yell to be heard by Higher Power, but that's not saying it's not there. And that is faith for you. It's belief even when the gods don't deliver.
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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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I might not be able to use the word hope, but I could certainly use the word optimism. I'm very optimistic. I don't feel that it helps to be pessimistic. At some point in my life I made a conscious decision that I would try to be optimistic - not blind to anything at all - but to always hear the way that had the best chance for happiness.
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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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History works itself out in the living.
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The contents of a house can trigger all sorts of revisions to family history.
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In order to purify yourself, you have to understand yourself, Father Trais went on. Everything out in the world is also in you. Good, bad, evil, perfection, death, everything. So we study our souls.
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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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Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that.
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