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She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live.

Annie Dillard

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Annie Dillard
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: April 30
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Pittsburg
Pennsylvania
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Every day is a god, each day is a god, and holiness holds forth in time.
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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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The sensation of writing a book is the sensation of spinning, blinded by love and daring.
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if you stay still, earth buries you, ready or not.
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The mind itself is an art object ... The mind is a blue guitar on which we improvise the song of the world.
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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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The real and proper question is: why is it beautiful?
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A schedule defends from chaos and whim. A net for catching days.
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