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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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Pittsburg
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I had been chipping at the world idly, and had by accident uncovered vast and labyrinthine further worlds within it.
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Geography is the key, the crucial accident of birth. A piece of protein could be a snail, a sea lion, or a systems analyst, but it had to start somewhere. This is not science it is merely metaphor. And the landscape in which the protein starts shapes its end as surely as bowls shape water.
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Push it. examine all things intensely and relentlessly.
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The dedicated life is worth living. You must give with your whole heart.
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The Pulitzer is more useful than meaningful.
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You are wrong if you think that you can in any way take the vision and tame it... The vision is not so much destroyed, exactly, as it is, by the time you have finished, forgotten. It has been replaced by this changeling.
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We are here to witness. There is nothing else to do with those mute materials we do not need. Until Larry teaches his stone to talk, until God changes his mind, or until the pagan gods slip back to their hilltop groves, all we can do with the whole inhuman array is watch it.
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As soon as beauty is sought not from religion and love, but for pleasure, it degrades the seeker.
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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.
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You are wrong if you think that you can in any way take the vision and tame it to the page. The page is jealous and tyrannical the page is made of time and matter the page always wins.
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