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The mind of the writer does indeed do something before it dies, and so does its owner, but I would be hard put to call it living.

Annie Dillard

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Annie Dillard
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: April 30
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We are here to witness the creation and to abet it.
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Write as if you were dying. At the same time, assume you write for an audience consisting solely of terminal patients. That is, after all, the case. What would you begin writing if you knew you would die soon? What could you say to a dying person that would not enrage by its triviality?
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When I teach, I preach. I thump the Bible. I exhort my students morally. I talk to them about the dedicated life.
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Whenever there is stillness there is the still small voice, God's speaking from the whirlwind, nature's old song, and dance.
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Are you living just a little and calling that life?
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It was less like seeing than like being for the first time seen, knocked breathless by a powerful glance.
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There is a muscular energy in sunlight corresponding to the spiritual energy of wind.
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A writer looking for subjects inquires not after what he loves best, but after what he alone loves at all.
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I'm a housewife: I spend far more time on housework than anything else.
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The Pulitzer is more useful than meaningful.
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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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