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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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University Teacher
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Pittsburg
Pennsylvania
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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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The extravagant gesture is the very stuff of creation.
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No one escapes the wilderness on the way to the promised land.
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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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By dipping us children in the Bible so often, they hoped, I think, to give our lives a serious tint, and to provide us with quaintly magnificent snatches of prayer to produce as charms while, say, being mugged for our cash or jewels.
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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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Every book has an intrinsic impossibility, which its writer discovers as soon as his first excitement dwindles.
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I noticed this process of waking, and predicted with terrifying logic that one of these years not far away I would be awake continuously and never slip back, and never be free of myself again.
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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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We are here on the planet only once, and might as well get a feel for the place.
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I know only enough of God to want to worship him, by any means ready to hand.
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The mind wants the world to return its love, or its awareness the mind wants to know all the world, and all eternity, and God.
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The real and proper question is: why is it beautiful?
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We wake, if ever at all, to mystery.
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As soon as beauty is sought not from religion and love, but for pleasure, it degrades the seeker.
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Silence is not our heritage but our destiny we live where we want to live.
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The irrational haunts the metaphysical.
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The universe is illusion merely, not one speck of it real, and we are not only its victims, falling always into or smashed by a planet slung by the sun-but also its captives, bound by the mineral-made ropes of our senses.
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Just once I wanted a task that required all the joy I had. Day after day I had noticed that if I waited long enough, my strong unexpressed joy would dwindle and dissipate inside me, like a fire subsiding . . . . Just this once I wanted to let it rip.
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