Louise Erdrich Quotes
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Coming down off the trail, I am lost in my own thoughts and unprepared when a bear chugs across the path just before it gives out on the gravel road. I am so distracted that I keep walking towards the bear. I only stop when it rears, stands on hind legs, and stares at me, sensitive nose pressed into the air, weak eyes searching. I have never been this close to a wild bear before, but I am not frightened. There is no menace in its stance; it is not even curious. The bear seems to know who or what I am. The bear is not impressed.
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It kills your writing if you try to manipulate it with crude politics.
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All of our actions have in their doing the seed of their undoing.
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So many things in the world have happened before. But it's like they never did. Every new thing that happens to a person, it's a first... In that night I felt expansion, as if the world was branching out in shoots and growing faster than the eye could see. I felt smallness, how the earth divided into bits and kept dividing. I felt stars.
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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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But if there was embellishment, it only had to do with the facts.
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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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I have to write. I have to be an artist.
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You know, some people fall right through the hole in their lives. It's invisible, but they come to it after time, never knowing where.
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Sometimes a person's monstrosity seems superhuman.
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The universe is transformation.
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I always have some way of putting the stories together that works for the book. I've always switched points of view in my books. I'm a Gemini.
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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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My parents' marriage is a gift to everyone around them - 60 years of making their kids laugh. How many parents are actually funny?
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I did not choose solitude. Who would? It came on me like a kind of vocation, demanding an effort that married women can't picture.
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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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We have these earthly bodies. We don't know what they want. Half the time, we pretend they are under our mental thumb, but that is the illusion of the healthy and the protected. Of sedate lovers. For the body has emotions it conceives and carries through without concern for anyone or anything else. Love is one of those, I guess. Going back to something very old knit into the brain as we were growing. Hopeless. Scorching. Ordinary.
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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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Her clothes were filled with safety pins and hidden tears.
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I prefer to have some beliefs that don't make logical sense.
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Your life feels different on you, once you greet death and understand your heart's position.
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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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By the time I was done with the car it looked worse than any typical Indian car that has been driven all its life on reservation roads, which they always say are like government promises - full of holes.
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There are several kinds of land on reservations. And all of these pieces of land have different entities who are in charge of enforcing laws on this land.