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I work really out of mythology, so often I work out of a story that has remained lodged inside somehow, or I work out of history, you know, out of a sense of historical inevitability with characters.

Louise Erdrich

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Louise Erdrich
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: June 7
Novelist
Poet
Short Story Writer
Writer
Little Falls
Minnesota
Often
Remained
Sense
Mythology
Stories
Somehow
Character
Historical
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Characters
Really
Inside
Story
Lodged
History
Inevitability

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All of our actions have in their doing the seed of their undoing. ... That in her creation of her children there should be the unspeakable promise of their death, for by their birth she had created mortal beings.
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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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When every inch of the world is known, sleep may be the only wilderness that we have left.
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I got well by talking. Death could not get a word in edgewise, grew discouraged, and traveled on.
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Sometimes a person's monstrosity seems superhuman.
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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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Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that.
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Her clothes were filled with safety pins and hidden tears.
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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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We passed over in a sweep of sorrow that would persist into our small forever. We just keep going.
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But if there was embellishment, it only had to do with the facts.
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The only time I see the truth is when I cross my eyes.
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People forget the good, because the bad has more punch.
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If life's a joke, then suicide's a bad punch line.
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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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The length of sky is just about the size of my ignorance. Pure and wide.
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Right and wrong were shades of meaning, not sides of a coin.
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