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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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We have not yet encountered any god who is as merciful as a man who flicks a beetle over on its feet.
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Books swept me away, this way and that, one after the other I made endless vows according to their lights for I believed them.
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The creatures I seek do not want to be seen.
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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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Who and of what import were the men whose bones bulk the Great Wall, the thirty million Mao starved, or the thirty million children not yet five who die each year now? Why, they are the insignificant others, of course living or dead, they are just some of the plentiful others...And you? To what end were we billions of oddballs born?
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I noticed this process of waking, and predicted with terrifying logic that one of these years not far away I would be awake continuously and never slip back, and never be free of myself again.
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Doing something does not require discipline. It creates its own discipline - with a little help from caffeine.
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The way we live our days, is the way we live our lives.
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No one can help you if you're stuck in a work. Only you can figure a way out, because only you can see the work's possibilities.
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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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I come down to the water to cool my eyes. But everywhere I look I see fire that which isn't flint is tinder, and the whole world sparks and flames.
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The novel is a game or joke shared between author and reader.
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Time is the warp and matter the weft of the woven texture of beauty in space, and death is the hurling shuttle.
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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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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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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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We wake, if we ever wake at all, to mystery, rumors of death, beauty, violence.
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