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English is a very powerful language, a colonizer’s language and a gift to a writer. English has destroyed and sucked up the languages of other cultures—its cruelty is its vitality.

— Louise Erdrich with The Paris Review (2010)

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Getting blown up happened in an instant; getting put together took the rest of your life.

LaRose (2016)

Sorrow eats time. Be patient. Time eats sorrow.

LaRose (2016)

When every inch of the world is known, sleep may be the only wilderness that we have left. (p190)

The Blue Jay's Dance: A Birth Year (1996)

What are dreams but an internal wilderness and what is desire but a wildness of the soul? (p182)

The Blue Jay's Dance: A Birth Year (1996)

Bits of narrative always cling to a title, like magnetism.

with The Paris Review (2010)

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