Louise Erdrich Quotes - Page 3

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• Love. The black hook. The spear singing through the mind.

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  Love, Black, Mind

  Louise Erdrich (2010). “Love Medicine”, p.40, Odyssey Editions

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• I truly think that you can't go and stalk your material, you have to leave the door open and whatever chooses you, chooses you. You can't go and wrestle it to the ground.

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  Thinking, Doors, Stalking

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• ...Grandpa's mind had left us, gone wild and wary. When I walked with him I could feel how strange it was. His thoughts swam between us, hidden under rocks, disappearing in weeds, and I was fishing for them, dangling my own words like baits and lures.

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  Weed, Rocks, Fishing

  Louise Erdrich (2010). “Love Medicine”, p.17, Odyssey Editions

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• Here I am, where I ought to be. A writer must have a place where he or she feels this, the place to love and be irritated with.

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  Here I Am, Irritated, Feels

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• We passed over in a sweep of sorrow that would persist into our small forever. We just keep going.

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  Forever, Sorrow, Persist

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• The only time I see the truth is when I cross my eyes.

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  Eye, Truth Is, Crosses

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• I got well by talking. Death could not get a word in edgewise, grew discouraged, and traveled on.

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  Inspirational, Talking, America

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• Her mind was present because she was always gone. Her hands were filled because they grasped the meaning of empty. Life was simple. Her husband returned and she served him with indifferent patience this time. When he asked what had happened to her heat for him, she gestured to the west. The sun was setting. The sky was a body of fire.

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  Husband, Simple, Fire

  Louise Erdrich (2012). “The Antelope Wife: A Novel”, p.14, Harper Collins

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• There is no such thing as a complete lack of order, only a design so vast it appears unrepetitive up close.

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  Order, Design

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• There are ways of being abandoned even when your parents are right there.

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  Parent, Way, Abandoned

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• Sometimes a person's monstrosity seems superhuman.

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  Sometimes, Monstrosity, Superhuman

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

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• If life's a joke, then suicide's a bad punch line.

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  Suicide, Lines, Jokes

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• Now that I knew fear, I also knew it was not permanent. As powerful as it was, its grip on me would loosen. It would pass.

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  Powerful, Permanent

  Louise Erdrich (2013). “The Round House”, p.138, Hachette UK

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• He despised his body for its boring hungers, reflex anger; its petty, obliterating rage. But now he'd become detached. He regarded his body with a tender regret. It was the thing his spirit had to haul.

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  Regret, Body, Spirit

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• All of our actions have in their doing the seed of their undoing.

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  Our Actions, Action, Undoing

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• 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.

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  Father, Order, Evil

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• What is this life but the sound of an appalling love.

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  Sound, This Life

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• I was in love with the whole world and all that lived in its rainy arms.

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  Rain, World, Arms

  Love Medicine ch. 15 (1984)

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• Here is the most telling fact: you wish to possess me.
 Here is another fact: I loved you and let you think you could.

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  Thinking, Wish, Facts

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• Don't read anything except what destroys the insulation between yourself and your experience.

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  Insulation

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• I did not choose solitude. Who would? It came on me like a kind of vocation, demanding an effort that married women can't picture.

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  Effort, Solitude, Married

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• Can you stop your mother from singing to you? Who would do such a thing?

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  Mother, Singing

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• As soon as there's a crisis, there are people who take charge and want to control others. Climate-change catastrophe and human migration and immigration are great for corporate and governmental control over people, and we have to contend with that. I should say, I see corporate control behind everything that the government is working on right now.

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  People, Immigration, Crisis

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• How come we've got these bodies? They are frail supports for what we feel. There are times I get so hemmed in by my arms and legs I look forward to getting past them. As though death will set me free like a traveling cloud... I'll be out there as a piece of the endless body of the world feeling pleasures so much larger than skin and bones and blood.

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  Past, Clouds, Blood

  Louise Erdrich (2010). “Love Medicine”, p.218, Odyssey Editions

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• It was just enough to sit there without words.

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  Reading, Bridal Shower, Wedding Speech

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