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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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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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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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There is no such thing as an artist: there is only the world lit or unlit as the light allows. When the candle is burning, who looks at the wick? When the candle is out, who needs it?
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It has always been a happy thought to me that the creek runs on all night, new every minute, whether I wish it or know it or care, as a closed book on a shelf continues to whisper to itself its own inexhaustible tale.
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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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The sea pronounces something, over and over, in a hoarse whisper I cannot quite make it out.
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As soon as beauty is sought not from religion and love, but for pleasure, it degrades the seeker.
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Just think: in all the clean, beautiful reaches of the solar system, our planet alone is a blot our planet alone has death.
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Are you living just a little and calling that life?
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By dipping us children in the Bible so often, they hoped, I think, to give our lives a serious tint, and to provide us with quaintly magnificent snatches of prayer to produce as charms while, say, being mugged for our cash or jewels.
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The interior life is often stupid.
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People who read are not too lazy to turn on the television they prefer books.
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Evolution loves death more than it loves you or me. This is easy to write, easy to read, and hard to believe.
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I cannot cause light the most I can do is try to put myself in the path of its beam.
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I think the dying pray at the last not please, but thank you, as a guest thanks his host at the door.
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No child on earth was ever meant to be ordinary, and you can see it in them, and they know it, too, but then the times get to them, and the wear out their brains learning what folks expect, and spend their strength trying to rise over those same folks.
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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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I am a fugitive and a vagabond, a sojourner seeking signs.
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I couldn't unpeach the peaches.
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Why do we people in churches seem like cheerful, brainless tourists on a packaged tour of the Absolute?
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