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How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.
Annie Dillard
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Annie Dillard
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: April 30
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It has always been a happy thought to me that the creek runs on all night, new every minute, whether I wish it or know it or care, as a closed book on a shelf continues to whisper to itself its own inexhaustible tale.
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When you write, you lay out a line of words. The line of words is a miner's pick, a wood carver's gouge, a surgeon's probe. You wield it, and it digs a path you follow. Soon you find yourself deep in new territory. Is it a dead end, or have you located the real subject? You will know tomorrow, or this time next year.
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I can't dance anymore. Total knee replacements. I can't do anything anymore.
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Art is like an ill-trained Labrador retriever that drags you out into traffic.
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Even if things are as bad as they could possible be, and as meaningless, then matters of truth are themselves indifferent we may as well please our sensibilities and, with as much spirit as we can muster, go out with a buck and a wing.
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I couldn't unpeach the peaches.
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I cannot cause light the most I can do is try to put myself in the path of its beam.
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Every day is a god, each day is a god, and holiness holds forth in time.
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There is no shortage of good days. It is good lives that are hard to come by.
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It is difficult to undo our own damage, and to recall to our presence that which we have asked to leave.
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The courage of children and beasts is a function of innocence.
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As soon as beauty is sought not from religion and love, but for pleasure, it degrades the seeker.
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A shepherd on a hilltop who looks at a mess of stars and thinks, ‘There’s a hunter, a plow, a fish,’ is making mental connections that have as much real force in the universe as the very fires in those stars themselves.
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How can people think that artists seek a name? A name, like a face, is something you have when you're not alone. There is no such thing as an artist: there is only the world, lit or unlit as the light allows.
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The secret is not to write about what you love best, but about what you, alone, love at all.
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The real and proper question is: why is it beautiful?
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The extravagant gesture is the very stuff of creation.
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Nature's silence is its one remark, and every flake of world is a chip off that old mute and immutable block.
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Your work is to keep cranking the flywheel that turns the gears that spin the belt in the engine of belief that keeps you and your desk in midair.
Annie Dillard
You search, you break your heart, your back, your brain, and then-and only then-it is handed to you.
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