Louise Erdrich Quotes - Page 5

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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.

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  Rivers, Different, Want

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• You really need to approach each book as if you have been a failure. . . . If you start to believe your flap-copy, you're finished as a writer.

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  Believe, Book, Needs

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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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  Book, Staff, Handle

  "Louise Erdrich’s War Of The Roses". Interview with Jeff Vasishta, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 9, 2016.

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• You know, some people fall right through the hole in their lives. Its invisible, but they come to it after time, never knowing where.

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  Fall, Knowing, People

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• She had always been a reader… but now she was obsessed. Since her discovery of the book hoard downstairs from her job, she’d been caught up in one such collection of people and their doings after the next…The pleasure of this sort of life – bookish, she supposed it might be called, a reading life – had made her isolation into a rich and even subversive thing. She inhabited one consoling or horrifying persona after another…That she was childless and husbandless and poor meant less once she picked up a book. Her mistakes disappeared into it. She lived with an invented force.

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  Jobs, Mistake, Book

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• I make very involved drawings, even little structures, and try using design to figure out the rhythm of a plot. If there are several narrators then a clue has to pop up in the first line. There have to be certain grammatical clues, or distinctive names.

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  Drawing, Names, Design

  "Louise Erdrich's War of The Roses". Interview with Jeff Vasishta, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 9, 2016.

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• When small towns find they cannot harm the strangest of their members, when eccentrics show resilience, they are eventually embraced and even cherished.

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  Resilience, Towns, Small Town

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• Veils of love which was only hate petrified by longing--that was me.

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  Hate, Veils, Longing

  Louise Erdrich (2010). “Love Medicine”, p.38, Odyssey Editions

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• Now I'm sixty-one... sixty-two, pretty soon. It's a really interesting age. Now we have women of your age, and coming up, and all these fantastic writers, who have managed to have their children but continue with their art, their work. I think women are doing the most interesting writing right now, the most interesting art. I see everything through this lens, of women finally taking their place in the world. Their true place. And it's very, very exciting to me.

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  Art, Children, Writing

  Source: therumpus.net

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• It's impossible to write about Native life without humor-that's how people maintain sanity.

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  Writing, People, Impossible

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• 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.

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  Character, Work Out, Historical

  "Louise Erdrich and 'The Painted Drum'". "Weekend Edition" with Liane Hansen, www.npr.org. October 2, 2005.

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• my mind ran over scenes of Shesheeb seducing Margaret until I was a wagon dragged by the runaway horses of my jealousy.

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  Jealousy, Horse, Mind

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• You never know where you're going to find the same thoughts in another brain, but when it happens you know it right off, just like you were connected by a small electrical wire that suddenly glows red hot and sparks.

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  Understanding, Brain, Wire

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• Your life feels different on you, once you greet death and understand your heart's position. You wear your life like a garment from the mission bundle sale ever after - lightly because you realize you never paid nothing for it, cherishing because you know you won't ever come by such a bargain again.

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  Life, Death, Heart

  Louise Erdrich (2010). “Love Medicine”, p.197, Odyssey Editions

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• I can't imagine a home without an overflow of books. The point of books is to have way too many but to always feel you never have enough, or the right one at the right moment, but then sometimes to find you'd longed to fall asleep reading the Aspern Papers, and there it is.

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  Reading, Book, Fall

  Louise Erdrich (2014). “Books and Islands in Ojibwe Country: Traveling Through the Land of My Ancestors”, p.9, Harper Collins

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• I knew each person's delusion, the places their records had scratched, where the sounds repeated.

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  Sound, Records, Delusion

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• I don't pray. When I was young, I vowed I never would be caught begging God. If I want something I get it for myself. I go to church only to show the old hens they don't get me down.

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  Want Something, Church, Would Be

  Louise Erdrich (2010). “Love Medicine”, p.77, Odyssey Editions

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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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  Thinking, Internet, Embedded

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Looking at the shape of the world, I see how we're in a time where women are the subject of hatred, fear, and we have to fight that all the time. I feel that there are fights we take for granted. When I look at the world, I see that women are subject to cruelty. And that's why the global gag rule means so much to me, that the United States wouldn't stand up for the rights and health of women.

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  Mean, Fighting, Hatred

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that.

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  Break, Protect You, Protect

  "The Painted Drum". Book by Louise Erdrich, www.npr.org. 2005.

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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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  Government, Car, Promise

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• A woman's body is the gate to this life. A man's body is the gate to the next life.

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  Men, Body, Next

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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.

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  Strong, Islands, Circles

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• To be of mixed blood is a great gift for a writer. I have one foot on tribal lands and one foot in middle-class life.

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  Blood, Land, Class

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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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  Eye, Air, Giving

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