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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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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 It has been replaced by this changeling.
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I would like to live. . . open to time and death painlessly, noticing everything, remembering nothing, choosing the given with a fierce and pointed will.
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I breathed the air of history all unaware, and walked oblivious through its littered layers.
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The real and proper question is: why is it beautiful?
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Young children have no sense of wonder. They bewilder well, but few things surprise them. All of it is new to young children, after all, and equally gratuitous.
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I would like to learn, or remember, how to live.
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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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A schedule is a mock-up of reason and order - willed, faked, and so brought into being.
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The creatures I seek do not want to be seen.
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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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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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She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live.
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You can't test courage cautiously, so I ran hard and waved my arms hard, happy.
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The interior life is often stupid.
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It could be that our faithlessness is a cowering cowardice born of our very smallness, a massive failure of imagination... If we were to judge nature by common sense or likelihood, we wouldnt believe the world existed.
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Art is like an ill-trained Labrador retriever that drags you out into traffic.
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What a hideout: Holiness lies spread and borne over the surface of time and stuff like color.
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If we were to judge nature by common sense or likelihood, we wouldn't believe the world existed.
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One of the few things I know about writing is this: Spend it all, shoot it, play it, lose it, all, right away, every time. Do not hoard what seems good for a later place in the book, or for another book, give it, give it all, give it now.
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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. It is hard to desecrate a grove and change your mind. The very holy mountains are keeping mum. We doused the burning bush and cannot rekindle it we are lighting matches in vain under every green tree.
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