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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.

Annie Dillard

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Annie Dillard
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: April 30
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Essayist
Novelist
Poet
University Teacher
Writer
Pittsburg
Pennsylvania
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Dies
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Moments
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Inexplicable
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Reckless
Conditions

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