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It was less like seeing than like being for the first time seen, knocked breathless by a powerful glance.
Annie Dillard
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Annie Dillard
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: April 30
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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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There are no events but thoughts and the heart's hard turning, the heart's slow learning where to love and whom. The rest is merely gossip, and tales for other times.
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An Eskimo shaman said, Life's greatest danger lies in the fact that man's food consists entirely of souls.
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How can people think that artists seek a name? A name, like a face, is something you have when you're not alone. There is no such thing as an artist: there is only the world, lit or unlit as the light allows.
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Theirs is the mystery of continuous creation and all that providence implies: the uncertainty of vision, the horror of the fixed, the dissolution of the present, the intricacy of beauty, the pressure of fecundity, the elusiveness of the free, and the flawed nature of perfection.
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It makes more sense to write one big book - a novel or nonfiction narrative - than to write many stories or essays. Into a long, ambitious project you can fit or pour all you possess and learn.
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For all the insularity of the old guard, Pittsburgh was always an open and democratic town.
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The mind itself is an art object. It is a Mondrian canvas onto whose homemade grids it fits its own preselected products. Our knowledge is contextual and only contextual. Ordering and invention coincide: we call their collaboration knowledge.
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Every spring he vowed to quit teaching school, and every summer he missed his pupils and searched for them on the streets.
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The answer must be, I think, that beauty and grace are performed whether or not we will or sense them. The least we can do is try to be there.
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Admire the world for never ending on you -- as you would an opponent, without taking your eyes away from him, or walking away.
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Write about winter in the summer. Describe Norway as Ibsen did, from a desk in Italy describe Dublin as James Joyce did, from a desk in Paris. Willa Cather wrote her prairie novels in New York City Mark Twain wrote Huckleberry Finn in Hartford, Connecticut. Recently, scholars learned that Walt Whitman rarely left his room.
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Dan Gerber is one of our finest living poets.
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You can't test courage cautiously, so I ran hard and waved my arms hard, happy.
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It's a little silly to finally learn how to write at this age. But I long ago realized I was secretly sincere.
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Those of us who read carried around with us like martyrs a secret knowledge, a secret joy, and a secret hope: There is a life worth living where history is still taking place there are ideas worth dying for, and circumstances where courage is still prized.
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I'm a housewife: I spend far more time on housework than anything else.
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