Louise Erdrich quotes - page 3

Can you stop your mother from singing to you? Who would do such a thing? (Louise Erdrich)
What men call adventures usually consist of the stoical endurance of appalling daily misery. View quote
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Right and wrong were shades of meaning, not sides of a coin. View quote
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There is a legacy of violence against native women that has gotten worse and worse over time. View quote
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Life is made up of three kinds of people -- those who live it, those afraid to, those in between. View quote
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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. View quote
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I think she is confused by the way I want her, which is like nobody else. I know this deep down. I want her in a new way, a way she's never been told about. View quote
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It's impossible to write about Native life without humor-that's how people maintain sanity. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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Death is the least civilized rite of passage. (Louise Erdrich)
Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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But if there was embellishment, it only had to do with the facts. View quote
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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. View quote
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It kills your writing if you try to manipulate it with crude politics. View quote
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I am part of what she thinks is her illness, a symptom of which she thinks she has been cured. She, on the other hand, is what I was looking for. View quote
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I spend most of my time writing. View quote
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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. View quote
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...whom he had saved from a life of excessive freedom. (Louise Erdrich)