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Anything you do not give freely and abundantly becomes lost to you.
Annie Dillard
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Annie Dillard
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: April 30
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Pittsburg
Pennsylvania
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These are our few live seasons. Let us live them as purely as we can, in the present.
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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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The life of sensation is the life of greed it requires more and more. The life of the spirit requires less and less.
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It is difficult to undo our own damage, and to recall to our presence that which we have asked to leave. It is hard to desecrate a grove and change your mind. The very holy mountains are keeping mum. We doused the burning bush and cannot rekindle it we are lighting matches in vain under every green tree.
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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 more you read, the more you will write. The better the stuff you read, the better the stuff you will write.
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I alternate between thinking of the planet as home - dear and familiar stone hearth and garden - and as a hard land of exile in which we are all sojourners.
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Novels written with film contracts in mind have a faint but unmistakable, and ruinous, odor.
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The universe is illusion merely, not one speck of it real, and we are not only its victims, falling always into or smashed by a planet slung by the sun-but also its captives, bound by the mineral-made ropes of our senses.
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The mind itself is an art object ... The mind is a blue guitar on which we improvise the song of the world.
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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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Are you living just a little and calling that life?
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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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Push it. examine all things intensely and relentlessly.
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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 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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Cruelty is a mystery, and the waste of pain. But if we describe a word to compass these things, a world that is a long, brute game, then we bump against another mystery: the inrush of power and delight, the canary that sings on the skull.
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It was less like seeing than like being for the first time seen, knocked breathless by a powerful glance.
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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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