Louise Erdrich Quotes
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Veils of love which was only hate petrified by longing – that was me.
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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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Time is the water in which we live, and we breathe it like fish. ... Time pours into us and then pours out again. In between the two pourings we live our destiny.
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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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It was just enough to sit there without words.
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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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The Internet, which seems now so embedded and personal and crucial to our lives, isn't at all - we really shouldn't think of it that way.
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I have never fully exorcised shames that struck me to the heart as a child except through written violence, shadowy caricature, and dark jokes.
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This so gnawed at him on some nights that he lay awake wondering just how many unknown and similarly inconsequential accidents and bits of happenstance were at this moment occurring or failing to occur in order to ensure he took his next breath, and the next.
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Numbers, time, inches, feet. All are just ploys for cutting nature down to size.