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Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that.

Louise Erdrich

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Louise Erdrich
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: June 7
Novelist
Poet
Short Story Writer
Writer
Little Falls
Minnesota
Protect
Nobody
Break
Life

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People forget the good, because the bad has more punch.
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The contents of a house can trigger all sorts of revisions to family history.
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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 length of sky is just about the size of my ignorance. Pure and wide.
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Your life feels different on you, once you greet death and understand your heart's position.
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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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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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What happens when you let an unsatisfactory present go on long enough? It becomes your entire history.
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Cold sinks in, there to stay. And people, they'll leave you, sure. There's no return to what was and no way back. There's just emptiness all around, and you in it, like singing up from the bottom of a well, like nothing else, until you harm yourself, until you are a mad dog biting yourself for sympathy. Because there is no relenting.
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To think about love and passion and political correctness all together, it doesn't work. Art has to go way past the political to be effective.
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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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When every inch of the world is known, sleep may be the only wilderness that we have left.
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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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They were so strong in their beliefs that there came a time when it hardly mattered what exactly those beliefs were they all fused into a single stubbornness.
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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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Life is made up of three kinds of people -- those who live it, those afraid to, those in between.
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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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I am part of what she thinks is her illness, a symptom of which she thinks she has been cured. She, on the other hand, is what I was looking for.
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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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