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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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One of the few things I know about writing is this: Spend it all, shoot it, play it, lose it, all, right away, every time. Do not hoard what seems good for a later place in the book, or for another book, give it, give it all, give it now.
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I would like to live. . . open to time and death painlessly, noticing everything, remembering nothing, choosing the given with a fierce and pointed will.
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What a hideout: Holiness lies spread and borne over the surface of time and stuff like color.
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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 universe was not made in jest but in solemn incomprehensible earnest.
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Our life seems cursed to be a wiggle merely, and a wandering without end.
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The interior life is often stupid.
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The mind itself is an art object. It is a Mondrian canvas onto whose homemade grids it fits its own preselected products. Our knowledge is contextual and only contextual. Ordering and invention coincide: we call their collaboration knowledge.
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Just once I wanted a task that required all the joy I had. Day after day I had noticed that if I waited long enough, my strong unexpressed joy would dwindle and dissipate inside me, like a fire subsiding . . . . Just this once I wanted to let it rip.
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Beauty and grace are performed whether or not we sense them.
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People who take photographs during their whole vacation won't remember their vacation. They'll only remember what photographs they took.
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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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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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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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Nothing on earth is more gladdening than knowing we must roll up our sleeves and move back the boundaries of the humanly possible once more.
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We are most deeply asleep at the switch when we fancy we control any switches at all.
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I'd seen a great many partial eclipses, but a partial eclipse has the same relation to a total eclipse as flirting with a man does to marrying him. It's completely different.
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