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How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. What we do with this hour and with that one, is what we are doing.

Annie Dillard

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Annie Dillard
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: April 30
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Whenever an encounter between a writer of good will and a regular person of good will happens to touch on the subject of writing, each person discovers, dismayed, that good will is of no earthly use. The conversation cannot proceed.
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It makes more sense to write one big book - a novel or nonfiction narrative - than to write many stories or essays. Into a long, ambitious project you can fit or pour all you possess and learn.
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We are here to witness the creation and to abet it.
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An Eskimo shaman said, Life's greatest danger lies in the fact that man's food consists entirely of souls.
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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 way to learn about a writer is to read the text. Or texts.
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if you stay still, earth buries you, ready or not.
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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 have since only rarely seen the tree with the lights in it. The vision comes and goes, mostly goes, but I live for it, for the moment when the mountains open and a new light roars in spate through the crack, and the mountains slam.
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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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Adverbs are a sign that you've used the wrong verb.
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Make connections let rip and dance where you can.
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What could you say to a dying person that would not enrage by its triviality?
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The world knew you before you knew the world.
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How can people think that artists seek a name? A name, like a face, is something you have when you're not alone. There is no such thing as an artist: there is only the world, lit or unlit as the light allows.
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The way you live your days is the way you live your life.
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Like everyone in his right mind, I feared Santa Claus.
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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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Push it. examine all things intensely and relentlessly.
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I saw in a blue haze all the world poured flat and pale between the mountains
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