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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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Old memories are very easy to get except that once you write about something you've destroyed it.
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Write about winter in the summer. Describe Norway as Ibsen did, from a desk in Italy describe Dublin as James Joyce did, from a desk in Paris. Willa Cather wrote her prairie novels in New York City Mark Twain wrote Huckleberry Finn in Hartford, Connecticut. Recently, scholars learned that Walt Whitman rarely left his room.
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The irrational haunts the metaphysical.
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The point of going somewhere like the Napo River in Ecuador is not to see the most spectacular anything. It is simply to see what is there.
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Books swept me away, this way and that, one after the other I made endless vows according to their lights for I believed them.
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The surest sign of age is loneliness.
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The way to learn about a writer is to read the text. Or texts.
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I write in my own journal when something extraordinary or funny happens. And there's some nice imagery in there. I don't think of what to do with it.
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It is madness to wear ladies' straw hats and velvet hats to church we should all be wearing crash helmets. Ushers should issue life preservers and signal flares they should lash us to our pews. For the sleeping God may wake someday and take offense, or the waking God may draw us out to where we can never return.
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I saw in a blue haze all the world poured flat and pale between the mountains
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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'm a housewife: I spend far more time on housework than anything else.
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I wake expectant, hoping to see a new thing.
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The creatures I seek do not want to be seen.
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Cruelty is a mystery, and a waste of pain.
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I breathed the air of history all unaware, and walked oblivious through its littered layers.
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I come down to the water to cool my eyes. But everywhere I look I see fire that which isn't flint is tinder, and the whole world sparks and flames.
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What a hideout: Holiness lies spread and borne over the surface of time and stuff like color.
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Let the grass die. I let almost all of my indoor plants die from neglect while I was writing the book. There are all kinds of ways to live. You can take your choice. You can keep a tidy house, and when St. Peter asks you what you did with your life, you can say, I kept a tidy house, I made my own cheese balls.
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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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