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Nothing moves a woman so deeply as the boyhood of the man she loves.
Annie Dillard
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Annie Dillard
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: April 30
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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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I don't know what it is about fecundity that so appalls. I suppose it is the teeming evidence that birth and growth, which we value, are ubiquitous and blind, that life itself is so astonishingly cheap, that nature is as careless as it is bountiful, and that with extravagance goes a crushing waste that will one day include our own cheap lives.
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Johnston's books are beautifully written and among the funniest I have ever read.
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We are most deeply asleep at the switch when we fancy we control any switches at all.
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Unfortunately, nature is very much a now-you-see-it, now-you-don't affair. A fish flashes, then dissolves in the water before my eyes like so much salt. Deer apparently ascend bodily into heaven the brightest oriole fades into leaves.
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The creatures I seek do not want to be seen.
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When you write, you lay out a line of words. The line of words is a miner's pick, a wood carver's gouge, a surgeon's probe. You wield it, and it digs a path you follow. Soon you find yourself deep in new territory. Is it a dead end, or have you located the real subject? You will know tomorrow, or this time next year.
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Crystals grew inside rock like arithmetic flowers. They lengthened and spread, added plane to plane in an awed and perfect obedience to an absolute geometry that even stones - maybe only the stones - understood.
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The surest sign of age is loneliness.
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The universe was not made in jest but in solemn incomprehensible earnest.
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You are wrong if you think that you can in any way take the vision and tame it to the page. The page is jealous and tyrannical the page is made of time and matter the page always wins.
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Who and of what import were the men whose bones bulk the Great Wall, the thirty million Mao starved, or the thirty million children not yet five who die each year now? Why, they are the insignificant others, of course living or dead, they are just some of the plentiful others...And you? To what end were we billions of oddballs born?
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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 world is wider in all directions, more dangerous and bitter, more extravagant and bright. We are making hay when we should be making whoopee we are raising tomatoes when we should be raising Cain and Lazarus.
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I couldn't unpeach the peaches.
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Cruelty is a mystery, and a waste of pain.
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poetry has been able to function quite directly as human interpretation of the raw, loose universe. It is a mixture, if you will, of journalism and metaphysics, or of science and religion.
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Experiencing the present purely is being empty and hollow you catch grace as a man fills his cup under a waterfall.
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A schedule defends from chaos and whim. A net for catching days.
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