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I am a fugitive and a vagabond, a sojourner seeking signs.
Annie Dillard
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Annie Dillard
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: April 30
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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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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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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 creative process obtains in all creative acts. So if I'm painting suddenly I'll see something that I didn't see before.
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The mind of the writer does indeed do something before it dies, and so does its owner, but I would be hard put to call it living.
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When you write, you lay out a line of words. Soon you find yourself deep in new territory.
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You can't test courage cautiously, so I ran hard and waved my arms hard, happy.
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We wake, if we ever wake at all, to mystery, rumors of death, beauty, violence.
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Push it. examine all things intensely and relentlessly.
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On plenty of days the writer can write three or four pages, and on plenty of other days he concludes he must throw them away.
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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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How can people think that artists seek a name? A name, like a face, is something you have when you're not alone. There is no such thing as an artist: there is only the world, lit or unlit as the light allows.
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I don't know what it is about fecundity that so appalls. I suppose it is the teeming evidence that birth and growth, which we value, are ubiquitous and blind, that life itself is so astonishingly cheap, that nature is as careless as it is bountiful, and that with extravagance goes a crushing waste that will one day include our own cheap lives.
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It's a little silly to finally learn how to write at this age. But I long ago realized I was secretly sincere.
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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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Nature seems to exult in abounding radicality, extremism, anarchy. If we were to judge nature by its common sense or likelihood, we wouldn't believe the world existed. In nature, improbabilities are the one stock in trade. The whole creation is one lunatic fringe. ... No claims of any and all revelations could be so far-fetched as a single giraffe.
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The real and proper question is: why is it beautiful?
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The dedicated life is worth living. You must give with your whole heart.
Annie Dillard
Those of us who read carried around with us like martyrs a secret knowledge, a secret joy, and a secret hope: There is a life worth living where history is still taking place there are ideas worth dying for, and circumstances where courage is still prized.
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Unless all ages and races of men have been deluded by the same mass hypnotist (who?), there seems to be such a thing as beauty, a grace wholly gratuitous.
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