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Famous Louise Erdrich Quotes
“But if there was embellishment, it only had to do with the facts.”
“We passed over in a sweep of sorrow that would persist into our small forever. We just keep going.”
“The greatest wisdom doesn't know itself. The richest plan is not to have one.”
“There are ways of being abandoned even when your parents are right there.”
“I stood there in the shadowed doorway thinking with my tears. Yes, tears can be thoughts, why not?”
“Right and wrong were shades of meaning, not sides of a coin.”
“I was in love with the whole world and all that lived in its rainy arms.”
“It's impossible to write about Native life without humor-that's how people maintain sanity.”
“I got well by talking. Death could not get a word in edgewise, grew discouraged, and traveled on.”
“We all got holes in our lives. Nobody dies in a perfect garment.”
“Every so often something shatters like ice and we are in the river of our existence. We are aware.”
“Columbus only discovered that he was in some new place. He didn't discover America.”
“The world tips away when we look into our children's faces.”
“Love won't be tampered with, love won't go away. Push it to one side and it creeps to the other.”
“A woman's body is the gate to this life. A man's body is the gate to the next life.”
“What men call adventures usually consist of the stoical endurance of appalling daily misery.”
“I knew each person's delusion, the places their records had scratched, where the sounds repeated.”
“Your life feels different on you, once you greet death and understand your heart's position.”
“The length of sky is just about the size of my ignorance. Pure and wide.”
“Love. The black hook. The spear singing through the mind.”
“Money helps, though not so much as you think when you don't have it.”
“Numbers, time, inches, feet. All are just ploys for cutting nature down to size.”