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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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By writing I can live in ways that I could not survive.
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History works itself out in the living.
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I prefer to have some beliefs that don't make logical sense.
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What is this life but the sound of an appalling love.
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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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I am at the bookstore a lot, but let my friends, the professional Birchbark Books staff, handle the day in and day out.
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Sometimes a person's monstrosity seems superhuman.
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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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Life is made up of three kinds of people -- those who live it, those afraid to, those in between.
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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.
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I knew each person's delusion, the places their records had scratched, where the sounds repeated.
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Right and wrong were shades of meaning, not sides of a coin.
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Here I am, where I ought to be. A writer must have a place where he or she feels this, the place to love and be irritated with.
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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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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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I spend my time dwelling on revenge and try to deal with the monsters crawling out of the ashes.
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Numbers, time, inches, feet. All are just ploys for cutting nature down to size.
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