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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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The universe is illusion merely, not one speck of it real, and we are not only its victims, falling always into or smashed by a planet slung by the sun-but also its captives, bound by the mineral-made ropes of our senses.
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I woke at intervals until . . . the intervals of waking tipped the scales, and I was more often awake than not.
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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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The reader's ear must adjust down from loud life to the subtle, imaginary sounds of the written word. An ordinary reader picking up a book can't yet hear a thing it will take half an hour to pick up the writing's modulations, its ups and downs and louds and softs.
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Johnston's books are beautifully written and among the funniest I have ever read.
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The irrational haunts the metaphysical.
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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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Write about winter in the summer. Describe Norway as Ibsen did, from a desk in Italy describe Dublin as James Joyce did, from a desk in Paris. Willa Cather wrote her prairie novels in New York City Mark Twain wrote Huckleberry Finn in Hartford, Connecticut. Recently, scholars learned that Walt Whitman rarely left his room.
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The life of sensation is the life of greed it requires more and more. The life of the spirit requires less and less.
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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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We are here on the planet only once, and might as well get a feel for the place.
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The way we live our days, is the way we live our lives.
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What could you say to a dying person that would not enrage by its triviality?
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Just think: in all the clean, beautiful reaches of the solar system, our planet alone is a blot our planet alone has death.
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The extravagant gesture is the very stuff of creation.
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Fiction keeps its audience by retaining the world as its subject matter. People like the world. Many people actually prefer it to art and spend their days by choice in the thick of it.
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Novels written with film contracts in mind have a faint but unmistakable, and ruinous, odor.
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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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The real and proper question is: why is it beautiful?
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It was less like seeing than like being for the first time seen, knocked breathless by a powerful glance.
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