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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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When I teach, I preach. I thump the Bible. I exhort my students morally. I talk to them about the dedicated life.
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The mind wants the world to return its love, or its awareness the mind wants to know all the world, and all eternity, and God.
Annie Dillard
Old memories are very easy to get except that once you write about something you've destroyed it.
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As a life's work, I would remember everything - everything, against loss. I would go through life like a plankton net.
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A schedule defends from chaos and whim. A net for catching days.
Annie Dillard
What could you say to a dying person that would not enrage by its triviality?
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What have we been doing all these centuries but trying to call God back to the mountain, or, failing that, raise a peep out of anything that isn't us? What is the difference between a cathedral and a physics lab? Are not they both saying: Hello? We spy on whales and on interstellar radio objects we starve ourselves and pray till we're blue.
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A writer looking for subjects inquires not after what he loves best, but after what he alone loves at all.
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What is a house but a bigger skin, and a neighborhood map but the world's skin ever expanding?
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Who and of what import were the men whose bones bulk the Great Wall, the thirty million Mao starved, or the thirty million children not yet five who die each year now? Why, they are the insignificant others, of course living or dead, they are just some of the plentiful others...And you? To what end were we billions of oddballs born?
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These are our few live seasons. Let us live them as purely as we can, in the present.
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Divinity is not playful. The universe was not made in jest but in solemn incomprehensibl e earnest. By a power that is unfathomably secret, and holy, and fleet. There is nothing to be done about it, but ignore it, or see.
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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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I couldn't unpeach the peaches.
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There is no such thing as an artist: there is only the world lit or unlit as the light allows. When the candle is burning, who looks at the wick? When the candle is out, who needs it?
Annie Dillard
It should surprise no one that the life of the writer - such as it is - is colorless to the point of sensory deprivation. Many writers do little else but sit in small rooms recalling the real world.
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The silence is all there is. It is the alpha and the omega, it is God's brooding over the face of the waters it is the blinded note of the ten thousand things, the whine of wings. You take a step in the right direction to pray to this silence, and even to address the prayer to World. Distinctions blur. Quit your tents. Pray without ceasing.
Annie Dillard
I have since only rarely seen the tree with the lights in it. The vision comes and goes, mostly goes, but I live for it, for the moment when the mountains open and a new light roars in spate through the crack, and the mountains slam.
Annie Dillard
On plenty of days the writer can write three or four pages, and on plenty of other days he concludes he must throw them away.
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A schedule is a mock-up of reason and order - willed, faked, and so brought into being.
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