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One Quotes by Louise Erdrich
- 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.
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- Love won't be tampered with, love won't go away. Push it to one side and it creeps to the other.
- The story comes around, pushing at our brains, and soon we are trying to ravel back to the beginning, trying to put families into order…
- We do know that no one gets wise enough to really understand the heart of another, though it is the task of our life to…
- We have these earthly bodies. We don't know what they want. Half the time, we pretend they are under our mental thumb, but that is…
- If, as I suspect, my body survives by uttering itself over and over again, then I have some questions. If [I] am one word, so…
- 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…
- 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…
- Our songs travel the earth. We sing to one another. Not a single note is ever lost and no song is original. They all come…
- The greatest wisdom doesn't know itself. The richest plan is not to have one.
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