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We have not yet encountered any god who is as merciful as a man who flicks a beetle over on its feet.
Annie Dillard
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Annie Dillard
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: April 30
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Pittsburg
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No one escapes the wilderness on the way to the promised land.
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The universe was not made in jest but in solemn incomprehensible earnest.
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Does anything eat flowers. I couldn't recall having seen anything eat a flower - are they nature's privileged pets?
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I wake expectant, hoping to see a new thing.
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Don't save something good for a later place. Don't hold back from your students, from the poor, don't try to keep anything for yourself 'cause it'll turn to ashes.
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A writer looking for subjects inquires not after what he loves best, but after what he alone loves at all.
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For all the insularity of the old guard, Pittsburgh was always an open and democratic town.
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The way we live our days, is the way we live our lives.
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People who read are not too lazy to turn on the television they prefer books.
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Landscape consists in the multiple, overlapping intricacies and forms that exist in a given space at a moment in time.
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Fiction keeps its audience by retaining the world as its subject matter. People like the world. Many people actually prefer it to art and spend their days by choice in the thick of it.
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A schedule is a mock-up of reason and order - willed, faked, and so brought into being.
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