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Spend the afternoon. You can't take it with you.
Annie Dillard
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Annie Dillard
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: April 30
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God gave me a talent to draw. I 'owed' it to him to develop the talent.
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I'd seen a great many partial eclipses, but a partial eclipse has the same relation to a total eclipse as flirting with a man does to marrying him. It's completely different.
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The sea pronounces something, over and over, in a hoarse whisper I cannot quite make it out.
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Your feelings are none of your business.
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A schedule defends from chaos and whim. A net for catching days.
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Doing something does not require discipline. It creates its own discipline - with a little help from caffeine.
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You can serve or you can sing, and wreck your heart in prayer, working the world's hard work.
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We still and always want waking.
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Unless all ages and races of men have been deluded by the same mass hypnotist (who?), there seems to be such a thing as beauty, a grace wholly gratuitous.
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No one can help you if you're stuck in a work. Only you can figure a way out, because only you can see the work's possibilities.
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Write about winter in the summer.
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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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The surest sign of age is loneliness.
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Silence is not our heritage but our destiny we live where we want to live.
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Almost all of my many passionate interests, and my many changes of mind, came through books. Books prompted the many vows I made to myself.
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It's a little silly to finally learn how to write at this age. But I long ago realized I was secretly sincere.
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We wake, if we ever wake at all, to mystery, rumors of death, beauty, violence.
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When I walk with a camera, I walk from shot to shot, reading the light on a calibrated meter. When I walk without a camera, my own shutter opens, and the moment's light prints on my own silver gut. When I see this second way I am above all an unscrupulous observer.
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The Pulitzer is more useful than meaningful.
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According to Inuit culture in Greenland, a person possesses six or seven souls. The souls take the form of tiny people scattered throughout the body.
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