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I saw in a blue haze all the world poured flat and pale between the mountains
Annie Dillard
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Annie Dillard
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: April 30
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Pittsburg
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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.
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Nature's silence is its one remark, and every flake of world is a chip off that old mute and immutable block.
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Every live thing is a survivor on a kind of extended emergency bivouac.
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Evolution loves death more than it loves you or me. This is easy to write, easy to read, and hard to believe.
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Trees have a curious relationship to the subject of the present moment. There are many created things in the universe that outlive us, that outlive the sun, even, but I can't think about them. I live with trees.
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Novels written with film contracts in mind have a faint but unmistakable, and ruinous, odor.
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You can't test courage cautiously, so I ran hard and waved my arms hard, happy.
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Writing a book is like rearing children -- willpower has very little to do with it. If you have a little baby crying in the middle of the night, and if you depend only on willpower to get you out of bed to feed the baby, that baby will starve. You do it out of love.
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Write about winter in the summer.
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We wake, if ever at all, to mystery.
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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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Geography is the key, the crucial accident of birth. A piece of protein could be a snail, a sea lion, or a systems analyst, but it had to start somewhere. This is not science it is merely metaphor. And the landscape in which the protein starts shapes its end as surely as bowls shape water.
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I feel as though I stand at the foot of an infinitely high staircase, down which some exuberant spirit is flinging tennis ball after tennis ball, eternally, and the one thing I want in the world is a tennis ball.
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The sense impressions of one-celled animals are not edited for the brain. This is philosophically interesting in a rather mournful way, since it means that only the simplest animals perceive the universe as it is.
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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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If we listened to our intellect, we’d never have a love affair... or go into business. You’ve got to jump off cliffs and build your wings on the way down.
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Old memories are very easy to get except that once you write about something you've destroyed it.
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I would like to learn, or remember, how to live.
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Appealing workplaces are to be avoided. One wants a room with no view, so imagination can meet memory in the dark.
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