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Louise Erdrich Quotes

American - Writer | June 7, 1954 -

My mother is Turtle Mountain Chippewa, and she lived on her home reservation. My father taught there. He had just been discharged from the Air Force. He went to school on the GI Bill and got his teaching credentials. He is adventurous - he worked his way through Alaska at age seventeen and paid for his living expenses by winning at the poker table.

Father Mother Home Age Mountain

My grandfather was a persuasive man who made friends with people at every level of influence. In order to fight against our tribe's termination, he went to newspapers and politicians and urged them to advocate for our tribe in Washington. He also supported his family through the Depression as a truck farmer.

Family Depression Man Fight People

Revenge is a sorrow for the person who has to take it on. And the person who is rash enough to think it's going to help a situation is always wrong.

Revenge Think Enough Help Situation

Love won't be tampered with, love won't go away. Push it to one side and it creeps to the other.

Love Push Go Side Away Go Away

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

Love World Lived Whole Arms Rainy

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

Death Talking Traveled Discouraged

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.

Love I Am Place She Where Here

It was enough just to sit there without words.

Words Enough Without Sit Just

Columbus only discovered that he was in some new place. He didn't discover America.

America Place New New Place Discover

You know, some people fall right through the hole in their lives. It's invisible, but they come to it after time, never knowing where.

Time People You Fall Know Knowing

I have never fully exorcised shames that struck me to the heart as a child except through written violence, shadowy caricature, and dark jokes.

Heart Child Me Violence Dark Never

My father is my biggest literary influence. Recently, I've been looking through his letters. He was in the National Guard when I was a child, and whenever he left, he would write to me. He wrote letters to me all through college, and we still correspond. His letters, and my mother's, are one of my life's treasures.

Life Father Mother Child College Me

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