Louise Erdrich quotes

Louise Erdrich is an American writer acclaimed for her novels exploring Native American identity and heritage. Her works often blend family history with themes of cultural survival and resilience. She has received numerous awards, including the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize. Here are 71 of her quotes:

Love won't be tampered with, love won't go away. Push it to one side and it creeps to the other. (Louise Erdrich)
Things which do not grow and change are dead things. View quote
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Columbus only discovered that he was in some new place. He didn't discover America. View quote
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I got well by talking. Death could not get a word in edgewise, grew discouraged, and traveled on. View quote
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I was in love with the whole world and all that lived in its rainy arms. View quote
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What happens when you let an unsatisfactory present go on long enough? It becomes your entire history. View quote
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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 takes shape. View quote
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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 back to a time when only the stones howled. View quote
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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. View quote
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some people meet the way the sky meets the earth, inevitably, and there is no stopping or holding back their love. It exists in a finished world, beyond the reach of common sense. View quote
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To love another another human in all of her splendor and imperfect perfection, it is a magnificent task...tremendous and foolish and human. (Louise Erdrich)
Here I am, where I ought to be. A writer must have a place where he or she feels this, a place to love and be irritated with. View quote
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They were so strong in their beliefs that there came a time when it hardly mattered what exactly those beliefs were; they all fused into a single stubbornness. View quote
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What is this life but the sound of an appalling love. View quote
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Society is like this card game here, cousin. We got dealt our hand before we were even born, and as we grow we have to play as best as we can. View quote
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... don't read anything except what destroys the insulation between yourself and your experience... View quote
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We started dying before the snow, and like the snow, we continued to fall. View quote
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I prefer to have some beliefs that don't make logical sense. View quote
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There will never come a time when I will be able to resist my emotions. View quote
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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. View quote
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I stood there in the shadowed doorway thinking with my tears. Yes, tears can be thoughts, why not? (Louise Erdrich)
Ravens are the birds I'll miss most when I die. If only the darkness into which we must look were composed of the black light of their limber intelligence. If only we did not have to die at all. Instead, become ravens. View quote
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We are never so poor that we cannot bless another human being, are we? So it is that every evil, whether moral or material, results in good. You'll see. View quote
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The contents of a house can trigger all sorts of revisions to family history. View quote
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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 love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart. View quote
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Louise Erdrich

Louise Erdrich - Image
Photo: Alessio Jacona from Rome, Italy, CC BY-SA 2.0
Occupation: American Writer
Born: June 7, 1954
Quotes count: 71
Wikipedia: Louise Erdrich

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