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Louise Erdrich Quotes

I had a very free childhood and ranged around on my bicycle the way boys do. I had few restrictions Picture Quote #1

I always have some way of putting the stories together that works for the book. I’ve always switched points of view in my books. I’m a Gemini Picture Quote #1

If only I had discipline, but alas, it is only an obsessive-compulsive trait and the beauty of habit that causes me to return again and again to my work Picture Quote #1

I am at the bookstore a lot, but let my friends, the professional Birchbark Books staff, handle the day in and day out Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

Columbus only discovered that he was in some new place. He didn’t discover America Picture Quote #1

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But then as time passed, I learned the lesson that parents do early on. You fail sometimes. No matter how much you love your children, there are times you slip. There are moments you can’t give, stutter, lose your temper, or simply lose face with the world, and you can’t explain this to a child Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

Women are strong, strong, terribly strong. We don’t know how strong until we are pushing out our babies. We are too often treated like babies having babies when we should be in training, like acolytes, novices to high priestesshood, like serious applicants for the space program Picture Quote #1

In order to purify yourself, you have to understand yourself, Father Trais went on. Everything out in the world is also in you. Good, bad, evil, perfection, death, everything. So we study our souls Picture Quote #1

I thought how we might have to yell to be heard by Higher Power, but that’s not saying it’s not there. And that is faith for you. It’s belief even when the gods don’t deliver Picture Quote #1

The music was more than music - at least what we are used to hearing. The music was feeling itself. The sound connected instantly with something deep and joyous Picture Quote #1

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Of course, English is a very powerful language, a colonizer’s language and a gift to a writer. English has destroyed and sucked up the languages of other cultures - its cruelty is its vitality Picture Quote #1

There is a legacy of violence against native women that has gotten worse and worse over time Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

A woman’s body is the gate to this life. A man’s body is the gate to the next life Picture Quote #1

So many things in the world have happened before. But it’s like they never did. Every new thing that happens to a person, it’s a first... In that night I felt expansion, as if the world was branching out in shoots and growing faster than the eye could see. I felt smallness, how the earth divided into bits and kept dividing. I felt stars Picture Quote #1

I am at the bookstore a lot, but let my friends, the professional Birchbark Books staff, handle the day in and day out Picture Quote #1

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...don’t read anything except what destroys the insulation between yourself and your experience Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

We are never so poor that we cannot bless another human being, are we? So it is that every evil, whether moral or material, results in good. You’ll see Picture Quote #1

The greatest wisdom doesn’t know itself. The richest plan is not to have one Picture Quote #1

All of our actions have in their doing the seed of their undoing Picture Quote #1

Each life is one short word slowly uttered Picture Quote #1

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I feel myself becoming less a person than a place, inhabited, a foreign land Picture Quote #1

The length of sky is just about the size of my ignorance. Pure and wide Picture Quote #1

Numbers, time, inches, feet. All are just ploys for cutting nature down to size Picture Quote #1

Money helps, though not so much as you think when you don’t have it Picture Quote #1

... don’t read anything except what destroys the insulation between yourself and your experience Picture Quote #1

Can you stop your mother from singing to you? Who would do such a thing? Picture Quote #1

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I had a very free childhood and ranged around on my bicycle the way boys do. I had few restrictions (Louise Erdrich Quotes) I always have some way of putting the stories together that works for the book. I’ve always switched points of view in my books. I’m a Gemini (Louise Erdrich Quotes) If only I had discipline, but alas, it is only an obsessive-compulsive trait and the beauty of habit that causes me to return again and again to my work (Louise Erdrich Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 Quotes) Columbus only discovered that he was in some new place. He didn’t discover America (Louise Erdrich Quotes) But then as time passed, I learned the lesson that parents do early on. You fail sometimes. No matter how much you love your children, there are times you slip. There are moments you can’t give, stutter, lose your temper, or simply lose face with the world, and you can’t explain this to a child (Louise Erdrich Quotes) 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 (Louise Erdrich Quotes) Women are strong, strong, terribly strong. We don’t know how strong until we are pushing out our babies. We are too often treated like babies having babies when we should be in training, like acolytes, novices to high priestesshood, like serious applicants for the space program (Louise Erdrich Quotes) In order to purify yourself, you have to understand yourself, Father Trais went on. Everything out in the world is also in you. Good, bad, evil, perfection, death, everything. So we study our souls (Louise Erdrich Quotes) I thought how we might have to yell to be heard by Higher Power, but that’s not saying it’s not there. And that is faith for you. It’s belief even when the gods don’t deliver (Louise Erdrich Quotes) The music was more than music - at least what we are used to hearing. The music was feeling itself. The sound connected instantly with something deep and joyous (Louise Erdrich Quotes) Of course, English is a very powerful language, a colonizer’s language and a gift to a writer. English has destroyed and sucked up the languages of other cultures - its cruelty is its vitality (Louise Erdrich Quotes) There is a legacy of violence against native women that has gotten worse and worse over time (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. (Louise Erdrich Quotes) A woman’s body is the gate to this life. A man’s body is the gate to the next life. (Louise Erdrich Quotes) So many things in the world have happened before. But it’s like they never did. Every new thing that happens to a person, it’s a first... In that night I felt expansion, as if the world was branching out in shoots and growing faster than the eye could see. I felt smallness, how the earth divided into bits and kept dividing. I felt stars. (Louise Erdrich Quotes) 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 Quotes) ...don’t read anything except what destroys the insulation between yourself and your experience... (Louise Erdrich Quotes) 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 Quotes) We are never so poor that we cannot bless another human being, are we? So it is that every evil, whether moral or material, results in good. You’ll see. (Louise Erdrich Quotes) The greatest wisdom doesn’t know itself. The richest plan is not to have one. (Louise Erdrich Quotes) All of our actions have in their doing the seed of their undoing (Louise Erdrich Quotes) Each life is one short word slowly uttered (Louise Erdrich Quotes) I feel myself becoming less a person than a place, inhabited, a foreign land (Louise Erdrich Quotes) The length of sky is just about the size of my ignorance. Pure and wide (Louise Erdrich Quotes) Numbers, time, inches, feet. All are just ploys for cutting nature down to size (Louise Erdrich Quotes) Money helps, though not so much as you think when you don’t have it (Louise Erdrich Quotes) ... don’t read anything except what destroys the insulation between yourself and your experience (Louise Erdrich Quotes) Can you stop your mother from singing to you? Who would do such a thing? (Louise Erdrich Quotes)

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