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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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  Light, Ravens, Bird

  Louise Erdrich (2009). “The Painted Drum: A Novel”, p.15, Harper Collins

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• I feel myself becoming less a person than a place, inhabited, a foreign land.

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  Land, Becoming, Feels

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• We have a huge struggle for our sense of what a democracy is. We're not living in reality when we think we have some sort of democracy. We're really on the edge. We have two presidents who lost the popular vote but won the election. This is not working.

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  Struggle, Reality, Thinking

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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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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  Effort, Solitude, Married

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• Money helps, though not so much as you think when you don't have it.

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  Money, Thinking, Helping

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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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  Love, Going Away, Sides

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• Women without children are also the best of mothers,often, with the patience,interest, and saving grace that the constant relationship with children cannot always sustain. I come to crave our talk and our daughters gain precious aunts. Women who are not mothering their own children have the clarity and focus to see deeply into the character of children webbed by family. A child is fortuante who feels witnessed as a peron,outside relationships with parents by another adult.

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  Daughter, Mother, Children

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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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  Time, Destiny, Two

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• All through my life I never did believe in human measurement. Numbers, time, inches, feet. All are just ploys for cutting nature down to size. I know the grand scheme of the world is beyond our brains to fathom, so I don't try, just let it in.

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  Believe, Cutting, Feet

  Louise Erdrich (2010). “Love Medicine”, p.214, Odyssey Editions

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• Columbus only discovered that he was in some new place. He didn't discover America.

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  America, Columbus, New Places

  Louise Erdrich, Michael Dorris, Allan Richard Chavkin, Nancy Feyl Chavkin (1994). “Conversations with Louise Erdrich and Michael Dorris”, p.141, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Cold sinks in, there to stay. And people, they'll leave you, sure. There's no return to what was and no way back. There's just emptiness all around, and you in it, like singing up from the bottom of a well, like nothing else, until you harm yourself, until you are a mad dog biting yourself for sympathy. Because there is no relenting.

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  Dog, People, Mad

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• Women are strong, strong, terribly strong. We don't know how strong until we're pushing out our babies.

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  Inspiring, Baby, Strong

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• 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.

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  Thinking, Earth, Who We Are

  "Cross-dressing the Divine". Interview by Josie Rawson, www.motherjones.com. June 2001.

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• Power travels in the bloodlines, handed out before birth.

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  Power, Birth, Bloodline

  "Love Medicine". Book by Louise Erdrich, 1984.

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• Numbers, time, inches, feet. All are just ploys for cutting nature down to size.

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  Nature, Cutting, Feet

  Louise Erdrich (2010). “Love Medicine”, p.214, Odyssey Editions

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• 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.

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  Thinking, Doors, Stalking

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• There will never come a time when I will be able to resist my emotions.

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  Able, Emotion

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• We all got holes in our lives. Nobody dies in a perfect garment.

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  Life, Perfect, Inspire

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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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  Running, Heart, Hands

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• We are conjured voiceless out of nothing and must return to an unknowing state. What happens in between is an uncontrolled dance, and what we ask for in love is no more than a momentary chance to get the steps right, to move in harmony until the music stops.

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  Moving, Love Is, Return

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• It didn't occur to me that my books would be widely read at all, and that enabled me to write anything I wanted to. And even once I realized that they were being read, I still wrote as if I were writing in secret. That's how one has to write anyway--in secret.

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  Book, Writing, Secret

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• At times the whole sky was ringed in shooting points and puckers of light gathering and falling, pulsing, fading, rhythmical as breathing. All of a piece. As if the sky were a pattern of nerves and our thought and memories traveled across it. As if the sky were one gigantic memory for us all.

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  Memories, Fall, Light

  Louise Erdrich (2010). “Love Medicine”, p.31, Odyssey Editions

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• ...which causes me to wonder, my own purpose on so many days as humble as the spider's, what is beautiful that I make? What is elegant? What feeds the world?

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  Beautiful, Humble, Spiders

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• Women don't realize how much store men set on the regularity of their habits. We absorb their comings and goings into our bodies, their rhythms into our bones.

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  Men, Body, Realizing

  Louise Erdrich (2012). “The Round House: A Novel”, p.7, Harper Collins

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• As soon as there's a crisis, there are people who take charge and want to control others. Climate-change catastrophe and human migration and immigration are great for corporate and governmental control over people, and we have to contend with that. I should say, I see corporate control behind everything that the government is working on right now.

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  People, Immigration, Crisis

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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