[On her and husband Michael Dorris:] We both have title collections. I think a title is like a magnet. It begins to draw these scraps of experience or conversation or memory to it. Eventually, it collects a book.
History works itself out in the living. - Louise Erdrich
History works itself out in the living.
- Louise Erdrich
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 from the same place and go … - Louise Erdrich
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 from the same place and go …
Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that. And living alone won't either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to… - Louise Erdrich
Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that. And living alone won't either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to…
What happens when you let an unsatisfactory present go on long enough? It becomes your entire history. - Louise Erdrich
What happens when you let an unsatisfactory present go on long enough? It becomes your entire history.
You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart. - Louise Erdrich
You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart.
People forget the good, because the bad has more punch. - Louise Erdrich
People forget the good, because the bad has more punch.
Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won't either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to… - Louise Erdrich
Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won't either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to…
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 try. - Louise Erdrich
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 try.
When we are young, the words are scattered all around us. As they are assembled by experience, so also are we, sentence by sentence, until the story … - Louise Erdrich
When we are young, the words are scattered all around us. As they are assembled by experience, so also are we, sentence by sentence, until the story …
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