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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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University Teacher
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Pittsburg
Pennsylvania
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I think that the dying pray at the last not please but thank you, as a guest thanks his host at the door. Falling from airplanes the people are crying thank you, thank you, all down the air and the cold carriages draw up for them on the rocks.
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The courage of children and beasts is a function of innocence.
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Even if things are as bad as they could possible be, and as meaningless, then matters of truth are themselves indifferent we may as well please our sensibilities and, with as much spirit as we can muster, go out with a buck and a wing.
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Push it. examine all things intensely and relentlessly.
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I worked so hard all my life, and all I want to do now is read.
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When I teach, I preach. I thump the Bible. I exhort my students morally. I talk to them about the dedicated life.
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The extravagant gesture is the very stuff of creation.
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A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is a scaffolding on which a worker can stand and labor with both hands at sections of time.
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The Pulitzer is more useful than meaningful.
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Self-consciousness is the curse of the city and all that sophistication implies.
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At its best, the sensation of writing is that of any unmerited grace. It is handed to you, but only if you look for it.
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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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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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No, the point is not only does time fly and do we die, but that in these reckless conditions we live at all, and are vouchsafed, for the duration of certain inexplicable moments, to know it.
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I had hopes for my rough edges. I wanted to use them as a can opener, to cut myself a hole in the world's surface and exit through it.
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