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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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Silence is not our heritage but our destiny we live where we want to live.
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People who take photographs during their whole vacation won't remember their vacation. They'll only remember what photographs they took.
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We are most deeply asleep at the switch when we fancy we control any switches at all.
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I woke in bits, like all children, piecemeal over the years. I discovered myself and the world, and forgot them, and discovered them again.
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I had good innings, as the British say. I wrote for 38 years at the top of my form, and I wanted to quit on a high note.
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People who read are not too lazy to turn on the television they prefer books.
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I come down to the water to cool my eyes. But everywhere I look I see fire that which isn't flint is tinder, and the whole world sparks and flames.
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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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The Pulitzer is more useful than meaningful.
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Like any child, I slid into myself perfectly fitted, as a diver meets her reflection in a pool. Her fingertips enter the fingertips on the water, her wrists slide up her arms. The diver wraps herself in her reflection wholly, sealing it at the toes, and wears it as she climbs rising from the pool, and ever after.
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Our life is a faint tracing on the surface of mystery.
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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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We live in all we seek.
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I write in my own journal when something extraordinary or funny happens. And there's some nice imagery in there. I don't think of what to do with it.
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Ecstasy, I think, is a soul's response to the waves holiness makes as it nears.
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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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Every book has an intrinsic impossibility, which its writer discovers as soon as his first excitement dwindles.
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Why do we people in churches seem like cheerful, brainless tourists on a packaged tour of the Absolute?
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Similarly, the impulse to keep to yourself what you have learned is not only shameful, it is destructive. Anything you do not give freely and abundantly becomes lost to you. You open your safe and find ashes.
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