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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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I want to hear what's happened to you," she said evenly after a while. she gestured in the direction, down river, of the butcher shop. "it's just that there is nowhere else to start," she said gently. "niether of us is the same. but i'm different because of small, good, manageable things. you're different because ... things i don't know.
Louise Erdrich
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Talking about how I might write the next book is like talking about whether or not to have sex. Any dithering ruins it.
Louise Erdrich -
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.
Louise Erdrich -
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.
Louise Erdrich -
I prefer to have some beliefs that don't make logical sense.
Louise Erdrich -
The universe is transformation.
Louise Erdrich -
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.
Louise Erdrich
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Love. The black hook. The spear singing through the mind.
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Where was I?""A different island," said old Tallow. Her voice was stern, but there was an ache in her look that Omakayas had never before seen. "An island called Spirit Island where everyone but you died of the itching sickness- you were the toughest one, the littlest one, and you survived them all.""You were sent here so you could save the others," she said. "Because you'd had the sickness, you were strong enough to nurse them through it. They did a good thing when they took you in, and you saved them for their good act. Now the circle that began when I found you is complete.
Louise Erdrich -
Each life is one short word slowly uttered.
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On any state elections map, the reservations are blue places. Native people are most often progressives, Democrats, and by no means gun-toting vigilantes.
Louise Erdrich -
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.
Louise Erdrich -
Columbus only discovered that he was in some new place. He didn't discover America.
Louise Erdrich
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I stood there in the shadowed doorway thinking with my tears. Yes, tears can be thoughts, why not?
Louise Erdrich -
I am at the bookstore a lot, but let my friends, the professional Birchbark Books staff, handle the day in and day out.
Louise Erdrich -
I truly think that you can't go and stalk your material, you have to leave the door open and whatever chooses you, chooses you. You can't go and wrestle it to the ground.
Louise Erdrich -
Her clothes were filled with safety pins and hidden tears.
Louise Erdrich -
Revenge is a sorrow for the person who has to take it on. And the person who is rash enough to think it's going to help a situation is always wrong.
Louise Erdrich -
There will never come a time when I will be able to resist my emotions.
Louise Erdrich
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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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The only time I see the truth is when I cross my eyes.
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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.
Louise Erdrich -
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.
Louise Erdrich