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We live in all we seek.

Annie Dillard

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Annie Dillard
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: April 30
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Essayist
Novelist
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University Teacher
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Pittsburg
Pennsylvania
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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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The sea pronounces something, over and over, in a hoarse whisper I cannot quite make it out.
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When I first read the words 'introvert' and 'extrovert' when I was 10, I thought I was both.
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I wake expectant, hoping to see a new thing.
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I am a fugitive and a vagabond, a sojourner seeking signs.
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We live half our waking lives and all of our sleeping lives in some private, useless, and insensible waters we never mention or recall.
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I'm a housewife: I spend far more time on housework than anything else.
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I woke at intervals until . . . the intervals of waking tipped the scales, and I was more often awake than not.
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If even rock was interesting, if even this ugliness was worth whole shelves at the library, required sophisticated tools to study, and inspired grown men to crack mountains and saw crystals--then what wasn't?
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Nature seems to exult in abounding radicality, extremism, anarchy. If we were to judge nature by its common sense or likelihood, we wouldn't believe the world existed. In nature, improbabilities are the one stock in trade. The whole creation is one lunatic fringe. ... No claims of any and all revelations could be so far-fetched as a single giraffe.
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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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Our family was on the lunatic fringe. My mother was always completely irrepressible. My father made crowd noises into a microphone.
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Cruelty is a mystery, and the waste of pain. But if we describe a word to compass these things, a world that is a long, brute game, then we bump against another mystery: the inrush of power and delight, the canary that sings on the skull.
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But enough is enough. One turns at last even from glory itself with a sigh of relief. From the depths of mystery, and even from the heights of splendor, we bounce back and hurry for the latitudes of home.
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Are you living just a little and calling that life?
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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 creative process obtains in all creative acts. So if I'm painting suddenly I'll see something that I didn't see before.
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On plenty of days the writer can write three or four pages, and on plenty of other days he concludes he must throw them away.
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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. It is hard to desecrate a grove and change your mind. The very holy mountains are keeping mum. We doused the burning bush and cannot rekindle it we are lighting matches in vain under every green tree.
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