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People who read are not too lazy to turn on the television they prefer books.
Annie Dillard
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Annie Dillard
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: April 30
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Wherever we go, there seems to be only one business at hand - that of finding workable compromises between the sublimity of our ideas and the absurdity of the fact of us.
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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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The extravagant gesture is the very stuff of creation.
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I had been my whole life a bell, and never knew it until at that moment I was lifted and struck.
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Are you living just a little and calling that life?
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Beauty and grace are performed whether or not we sense them.
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poetry has been able to function quite directly as human interpretation of the raw, loose universe. It is a mixture, if you will, of journalism and metaphysics, or of science and religion.
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Cruelty is a mystery, and a waste of pain.
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I woke in bits, like all children, piecemeal over the years. I discovered myself and the world, and forgot them, and discovered them again.
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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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Why are we reading, if not in hope of beauty laid bare, life heightened and its deepest mystery probed?
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These are our few live seasons. Let us live them as purely as we can, in the present.
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Don't save something good for a later place. Don't hold back from your students, from the poor, don't try to keep anything for yourself 'cause it'll turn to ashes.
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There is no such thing as an artist: there is only the world lit or unlit as the light allows. When the candle is burning, who looks at the wick? When the candle is out, who needs it?
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As a life's work, I would remember everything - everything, against loss. I would go through life like a plankton net.
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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.
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Skin was earth it was soil. I could see, even on my own skin, the joined trapezoids of dust specks God had wetted and stuck with his spit the morning he made Adam from dirt. Now, all these generations later, we people could still see on our skin the inherited prints of the dust specks of Eden.
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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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When you write, you lay out a line of words. Soon you find yourself deep in new territory.
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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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