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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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Right and wrong were shades of meaning, not sides of a coin.
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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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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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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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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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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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We passed over in a sweep of sorrow that would persist into our small forever. We just keep going.
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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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To sew is to pray. Men don't understand this. They see the whole but they don't see the stitches. They don't see the speech of the creator in the work of the needle.
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Love won't be tampered with, love won't go away. Push it to one side and it creeps to the other.
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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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What is this life but the sound of an appalling love.
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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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