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Louise Erdrich quotes: Love won't be tampered with, love won't go away. Push it to one side and it creeps to the other. Love won't be tampered with, love won't go away. Push it to one side and it creeps to the other.
Louise Erdrich quotes: The greatest wisdom doesn't know itself. The richest plan is not to have one. The greatest wisdom doesn't know itself. The richest plan is not to have one.
Louise Erdrich quotes: I spend my time dwelling on revenge and try to deal with the monsters crawling out of the ashes. I spend my time dwelling on revenge and try to deal with the monsters crawling out of the ashes.
Louise Erdrich quotes: I prefer to have some beliefs that don't make logical sense. I prefer to have some beliefs that don't make logical sense.
Louise Erdrich quotes: Why now that he's sober and thoughtful, and living as a good man, does he get in the worst trouble of his life? Why now that he's sober and thoughtful, and living as a good man, does he get in the worst trouble of his life?
Louise Erdrich quotes: I knew each person's delusion, the places their records had scratched, where the sounds repeated. I knew each person's delusion, the places their records had scratched, where the sounds repeated.
Louise Erdrich quotes: Nector got even by the use of penmanship. Nector got even by the use of penmanship.
Louise Erdrich quotes: I think one of the reasons to be here on earth is to finally be who we are, at all times - to know and be predictable to ourselves. I think one of the reasons to be here on earth is to finally be who we are, at all times - to know and be predictable to ourselves.
Louise Erdrich quotes: Plans sprang up. She would get fancier chickens. Plans sprang up. She would get fancier chickens.
Louise Erdrich quotes: I grew up in Wahpeton, N.D., and I didn't leave until I was 18, and I've kept going back. I grew up in Wahpeton, N.D., and I didn't leave until I was 18, and I've kept going back.
Louise Erdrich quotes: What happens when you let an unsatisfactory present go on long enough? It becomes your entire history. What happens when you let an unsatisfactory present go on long enough? It becomes your entire history.
Louise Erdrich quotes: To fly from one tree to another, the raven hangs itself, hawklike, on the air. I hang myself that same way in sleep, between one day and the next. To fly from one tree to another, the raven hangs itself, hawklike, on the air. I hang myself that same way in sleep, between one day and the next.
Louise Erdrich quotes: I hold his name close as my own blood and I will never let it out. I only spoke it that once so he would know he was alive. I hold his name close as my own blood and I will never let it out. I only spoke it that once so he would know he was alive.
Louise Erdrich quotes: Every so often something shatters like ice and we are in the river of our existence. We are aware. Every so often something shatters like ice and we are in the river of our existence. We are aware.
Louise Erdrich quotes: Bad smells made her angry, they were a personal affront. Bad smells made her angry, they were a personal affront.
Louise Erdrich quotes: 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. 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 quotes: Getting out of bed, out of a chair, changing her position, was like moving furniture. Getting out of bed, out of a chair, changing her position, was like moving furniture.
Louise Erdrich quotes: Blue Juneberry, tough diamond willow. Blue Juneberry, tough diamond willow.
Louise Erdrich quotes: Getting blown up happened in an instant; getting put together took the rest of your life. Getting blown up happened in an instant; getting put together took the rest of your life.
Louise Erdrich quotes: What men call adventures usually consist of the stoical endurance of appalling daily misery. What men call adventures usually consist of the stoical endurance of appalling daily misery.
Louise Erdrich quotes: Talking about how I might write the next book is like talking about whether or not to have sex. Any dithering ruins it. 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 quotes: He was poised on circumstance. He was poised on circumstance.
Louise Erdrich quotes: We passed over in a sweep of sorrow that would persist into our small forever. We just keep going. We passed over in a sweep of sorrow that would persist into our small forever. We just keep going.
Louise Erdrich quotes: I spend most of my time writing. I spend most of my time writing.
Louise Erdrich quotes: The world tips away when we look into our children's faces. The world tips away when we look into our children's faces.
Louise Erdrich quotes: Then his head tipped down on his chest and he fell into the instant sleep of the ancient and the very young. Then his head tipped down on his chest and he fell into the instant sleep of the ancient and the very young.
Louise Erdrich quotes: I tried to get away from him, to get to that door, but instead I backed up against the wall and was stuck there in that white, white room. I tried to get away from him, to get to that door, but instead I backed up against the wall and was stuck there in that white, white room.
Louise Erdrich quotes: It was Sister Hildegarde's belief that good penmanship was the defining key to success in life. It was Sister Hildegarde's belief that good penmanship was the defining key to success in life.
Louise Erdrich quotes: Now that she was conscious there was no end to her questions and exclamations, for Dot was a born traveler, meant to go places, unlike us. Now that she was conscious there was no end to her questions and exclamations, for Dot was a born traveler, meant to go places, unlike us.
Louise Erdrich quotes: It kills your writing if you try to manipulate it with crude politics. It kills your writing if you try to manipulate it with crude politics.
Louise Erdrich quotes: Soon she cried and farted herself to sleep. Soon she cried and farted herself to sleep.
Louise Erdrich quotes: Nothing I write ever has a moral. If it seems to a reader that there is one, that is unintentional. Nothing I write ever has a moral. If it seems to a reader that there is one, that is unintentional.
Louise Erdrich quotes: I feel myself becoming less a person than a place, inhabited, a foreign land. I feel myself becoming less a person than a place, inhabited, a foreign land.
Louise Erdrich quotes: We all got holes in our lives. Nobody dies in a perfect garment. We all got holes in our lives. Nobody dies in a perfect garment.
Louise Erdrich quotes: Columbus only discovered that he was in some new place. He didn't discover America. Columbus only discovered that he was in some new place. He didn't discover America.
Louise Erdrich quotes: From Mooshum to Sonja, back and forth. They wouldn't look at each other. I'm gonna ask you to leave in a nice way, Joe. From Mooshum to Sonja, back and forth. They wouldn't look at each other. I'm gonna ask you to leave in a nice way, Joe.
Louise Erdrich quotes: The gun jammed on the last shot and the baby stood holding the crib rail, eyes wild, bawling. The gun jammed on the last shot and the baby stood holding the crib rail, eyes wild, bawling.
Louise Erdrich quotes: Right and wrong were shades of meaning, not sides of a coin. Right and wrong were shades of meaning, not sides of a coin.
Louise Erdrich quotes: But if there was embellishment, it only had to do with the facts. But if there was embellishment, it only had to do with the facts.
Louise Erdrich quotes: Freedom, I found is not only in the running but in the heart, the mind, the hands. Freedom, I found is not only in the running but in the heart, the mind, the hands.
Louise Erdrich quotes: Life is made up of three kinds of people those who live it, those afraid to, those in between. Life is made up of three kinds of people
those who live it, those afraid to, those in between.
Louise Erdrich quotes: It was enough just to sit there without words. It was enough just to sit there without words.
Louise Erdrich quotes: Nothing I force myself to write about ever turns out well, and so I've learned to wait for the voice, the incident, the image that reverberates. Nothing I force myself to write about ever turns out well, and so I've learned to wait for the voice, the incident, the image that reverberates.
Louise Erdrich quotes: The Creator made us for each other. Me here. Zelia there. Space was put between us by human error. But our hearts listened to divine will. The Creator made us for each other. Me here. Zelia there. Space was put between us by human error. But our hearts listened to divine will.
Louise Erdrich quotes: Numbers, time, inches, feet. All are just ploys for cutting nature down to size. Numbers, time, inches, feet. All are just ploys for cutting nature down to size.
Louise Erdrich quotes: She compares the deepest wells of depression to gestation, to a time enclosed, a secluded lightlessness in which, unknown and unforced, we grow. She compares the deepest wells of depression to gestation, to a time enclosed, a secluded lightlessness in which, unknown and unforced, we grow.
Louise Erdrich quotes: What I am doing now is for the future, though it may seem small, or trivial, or boring, to you. What I am doing now is for the future, though it may seem small, or trivial, or boring, to you.
Louise Erdrich quotes: You said if they're assigned to Indian Country they are either rookies or have trouble with authority. Did You said if they're assigned to Indian Country they are either rookies or have trouble with authority. Did
Louise Erdrich quotes: My father had bought an ugly new clock, and it was ticking again in the quiet kitchen. My father had bought an ugly new clock, and it was ticking again in the quiet kitchen.
Louise Erdrich quotes: I have brothers and was a tomboy, if that's still a designation. It wasn't a stretch for me to think and write as a 13-year-old boy - it is freeing. I have brothers and was a tomboy, if that's still a designation. It wasn't a stretch for me to think and write as a 13-year-old boy - it is freeing.
Louise Erdrich quotes: 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 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 quotes: Women are strong, strong, terribly strong. We don't know how strong until we're pushing out our babies. Women are strong, strong, terribly strong. We don't know how strong until we're pushing out our babies.
Louise Erdrich quotes: Money helps, though not so much as you think when you don't have it. Money helps, though not so much as you think when you don't have it.
Louise Erdrich quotes: History works itself out in the living. History works itself out in the living.
Louise Erdrich quotes: There is a legacy of violence against native women that has gotten worse and worse over time. There is a legacy of violence against native women that has gotten worse and worse over time.
Louise Erdrich quotes: Our love is a hurting delicacy, an old killer whiskey, a curse, and too beautiful for words. Our love is a hurting delicacy, an old killer whiskey, a curse, and too beautiful for words.
Louise Erdrich quotes: To think about love and passion and political correctness all together, it doesn't work. Art has to go way past the political to be effective. To think about love and passion and political correctness all together, it doesn't work. Art has to go way past the political to be effective.
Louise Erdrich quotes: You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart.
Louise Erdrich quotes: They're all the same the cop, the criminal, the defense, the prosecutor they all share a fundamental belief in the malleability of truth They're all the same
the cop, the criminal, the defense, the prosecutor
they all share a fundamental belief in the malleability of truth
Louise Erdrich quotes: The length of sky is just about the size of my ignorance. Pure and wide. The length of sky is just about the size of my ignorance. Pure and wide.
Louise Erdrich quotes: I stood there in the shadowed doorway thinking with my tears. Yes, tears can be thoughts, why not? I stood there in the shadowed doorway thinking with my tears. Yes, tears can be thoughts, why not?
Louise Erdrich quotes: Sometimes owls came near to warn of death. Sometimes they just asked people to be careful. Sometimes they were just owls. Sometimes owls came near to warn of death. Sometimes they just asked people to be careful. Sometimes they were just owls.
Louise Erdrich quotes: Whenever he thought he knew the truth it merged into another truth. Whenever he thought he knew the truth it merged into another truth.
Louise Erdrich quotes: Here I am, where I ought to be. A writer must have a place where he or she feels this, a place to love and be irritated with. Here I am, where I ought to be. A writer must have a place where he or she feels this, a place to love and be irritated with.
Louise Erdrich quotes: I'd love to meet my ancestors. I'd love to be able to speak to them. I'd love to meet my ancestors. I'd love to be able to speak to them.
Louise Erdrich quotes: It's impossible to write about Native life without humor-that's how people maintain sanity. It's impossible to write about Native life without humor-that's how people maintain sanity.
Louise Erdrich quotes: To love another human in all of her splendor and imperfect perfection , it is a magnificent task ... tremendous and foolish and human. To love another human in all of her splendor and imperfect perfection , it is a magnificent task ... tremendous and foolish and human.
Louise Erdrich quotes: I imagined myself in some way defined by my relation to another creature. I imagined myself in some way defined by my relation to another creature.
Louise Erdrich quotes: Albertine was one of those who took on too much in order to remain perpetually dissatisfied with herself. Albertine was one of those who took on too much in order to remain perpetually dissatisfied with herself.
Louise Erdrich quotes: I got well by talking. Death could not get a word in edgewise, grew discouraged, and traveled on. I got well by talking. Death could not get a word in edgewise, grew discouraged, and traveled on.
Louise Erdrich quotes: She had a talent for looking at a person with no expression - you filled in whatever you felt guiltiest about. She had a talent for looking at a person with no expression - you filled in whatever you felt guiltiest about.
Louise Erdrich quotes: Power travels in the bloodlines, handed out before birth. Power travels in the bloodlines, handed out before birth.
Louise Erdrich quotes: I tried out the unfamiliar syllables. They fit. They cracked in my ears like a fist through ice. I tried out the unfamiliar syllables. They fit. They cracked in my ears like a fist through ice.
Louise Erdrich quotes: Now that I knew fear, I also knew it was not permanent. As powerful as it was, its grip on me would loosen. It would pass. Now that I knew fear, I also knew it was not permanent. As powerful as it was, its grip on me would loosen. It would pass.
Louise Erdrich quotes: It was just enough to sit there without words. It was just enough to sit there without words.
Louise Erdrich quotes: I have always kept notebooks and I go back to them over and over. They are my compost pile of ideas. I have always kept notebooks and I go back to them over and over. They are my compost pile of ideas.
Louise Erdrich quotes: Her clothes were filled with safety pins and hidden tears. Her clothes were filled with safety pins and hidden tears.
Louise Erdrich quotes: White people covered the earth like lice. White people covered the earth like lice.
Louise Erdrich quotes: People still lived on the margins of the land they had owned. People still lived on the margins of the land they had owned.
Louise Erdrich quotes: Sorrow eats time. Be patient. Time eats sorrow. Sorrow eats time. Be patient. Time eats sorrow.
Louise Erdrich quotes: It seemed to her that almost any pain was sympathetic to her loss and she inserted herself immediately into the concept of fantastic suffering. It seemed to her that almost any pain was sympathetic to her loss and she inserted herself immediately into the concept of fantastic suffering.
Louise Erdrich quotes: Her outfit must have penetrated his unconscious. She wore a shirt of softly fringed suede that clung to her breasts like an unforgiven sin. Her outfit must have penetrated his unconscious. She wore a shirt of softly fringed suede that clung to her breasts like an unforgiven sin.
Louise Erdrich quotes: I have never seen the truth," said Damien, "without crossing my eyes. Life is crazy. I have never seen the truth," said Damien, "without crossing my eyes. Life is crazy.
Louise Erdrich quotes: What is this life but the sound of an appalling love. What is this life but the sound of an appalling love.
Louise Erdrich quotes: So what is wild? What is wilderness? What are dreams but an internal wilderness and what is desire but a wildness of the soul? So what is wild? What is wilderness? What are dreams but an internal wilderness and what is desire but a wildness of the soul?
Louise Erdrich quotes: Whom he had saved from a life of excessive freedom Whom he had saved from a life of excessive freedom
Louise Erdrich quotes: Emotions unreel in her like spools of cotton. Emotions unreel in her like spools of cotton.
Louise Erdrich quotes: He was a bad thing waiting for a worse thing to happen. He was a bad thing waiting for a worse thing to happen.
Louise Erdrich quotes: I rarely step on sidewalk cracks. I don't wear a watch. I touch my favorite tree before going on long trips. I rarely step on sidewalk cracks. I don't wear a watch. I touch my favorite tree before going on long trips.
Louise Erdrich quotes: The contents of a house can trigger all sorts of revisions to family history. The contents of a house can trigger all sorts of revisions to family history.
Louise Erdrich quotes: I was in love with the whole world and all that lived in its rainy arms. I was in love with the whole world and all that lived in its rainy arms.
Louise Erdrich quotes: Funny how often the Will of God puts a dollar in a pocket, said Dr. Ames. Funny how often the Will of God puts a dollar in a pocket, said Dr. Ames.
Louise Erdrich quotes: Death is the least civilized rite of passage. Death is the least civilized rite of passage.
Louise Erdrich quotes: He began his morning at six a.m. with a cup of coffee and a paperback. He began his morning at six a.m. with a cup of coffee and a paperback.
Louise Erdrich quotes: The people stared through her as though she were invisible until she thought she was, and walked more easily then, just a cloud reflected in a stream. The people stared through her as though she were invisible until she thought she was, and walked more easily then, just a cloud reflected in a stream.
Louise Erdrich quotes: There are ways of being abandoned even when your parents are right there. There are ways of being abandoned even when your parents are right there.
Louise Erdrich quotes: 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 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.
Louise Erdrich quotes: Only when you are secure enough not to fear immediate survival can you display creative intelligence in anything you do. Only when you are secure enough not to fear immediate survival can you display creative intelligence in anything you do.
Louise Erdrich quotes: I have to write. I have to be an artist. I have to write. I have to be an artist.
Louise Erdrich quotes: He had started to understand how a woman's attention could succeed in making sense of a man's blind chaos.. He had started to understand how a woman's attention could succeed in making sense of a man's blind chaos..

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