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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.

Louise Erdrich

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Louise Erdrich
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: June 7
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Little Falls
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Ravens are the birds I'll miss most when I die. If only the darkness into which we must look were composed of the black light of their limber intelligence. If only we did not have to die at all. Instead, become ravens.
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I knew each person's delusion, the places their records had scratched, where the sounds repeated.
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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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I want to remember what bullshit looks like when weapons of mass destruction are diagrammed out and whacko intelligence is delivered in an ominous way to strike fear into people and especially to pull on the idealism and zeal of the young.
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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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It is easy to take away the world that we think is so permanent and reliable.
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If life's a joke, then suicide's a bad punch line.
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There is a legacy of violence against native women that has gotten worse and worse over time.
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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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Every so often something shatters like ice and we are in the river of our existence. We are aware.
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Can you stop your mother from singing to you? Who would do such a thing?
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Freedom, I found is not only in the running but in the heart, the mind, the hands.
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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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Society is like this card game here, cousin. We got dealt our hand before we were even born, and as we grow we have to play as best as we can.
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The greatest wisdom doesn't know itself. The richest plan is not to have one.
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