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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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University Teacher
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Pittsburg
Pennsylvania
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Housework
Housewife
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Knowing you are alive is watching on every side your generation's short time falling away as fast as rivers drop through air, and feeling it hit.
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The dedicated life is worth living. You must give with your whole heart.
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Silence is not our heritage but our destiny we live where we want to live.
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We have not yet encountered any god who is as merciful as a man who flicks a beetle over on its feet.
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