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I'm a housewife: I spend far more time on housework than anything else.
Annie Dillard
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Annie Dillard
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: April 30
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There is neither a proportional relationship, nor an inverse one, between a writer’s estimation of a work in progress & its actual quality. The feeling that the work is magnificent, & the feeling that it is abominable, are both mosquitoes to be repelled, ignored, or killed, but not indulged.
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The sensation of writing a book is the sensation of spinning, blinded by love and daring.
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Many writers do little else but sit in small rooms recalling the real world.
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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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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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The extravagant gesture is the very stuff of creation.
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I alternate between thinking of the planet as home - dear and familiar stone hearth and garden - and as a hard land of exile in which we are all sojourners.
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Novels written with film contracts in mind have a faint but unmistakable, and ruinous, odor.
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No, the point is not only does time fly and do we die, but that in these reckless conditions we live at all, and are vouchsafed, for the duration of certain inexplicable moments, to know it.
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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.
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We wake, if we ever wake at all, to mystery, rumors of death, beauty, violence.
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He is careful of what he reads, for that is what he will write. He is careful of what he learns, for that is what he will know.
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Anything you do not give freely and abundantly becomes lost to you.
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The interior life is often stupid.
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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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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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A schedule is a mock-up of reason and order - willed, faked, and so brought into being.
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How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.
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Caring passionately about something isn't against nature, and it isn't against human nature. It's what we're here to do.
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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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