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Nature's silence is its one remark, and every flake of world is a chip off that old mute and immutable block.
Annie Dillard
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Annie Dillard
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: April 30
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The way we live our days, is the way we live our lives.
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We are here to witness. There is nothing else to do with those mute materials we do not need. Until Larry teaches his stone to talk, until God changes his mind, or until the pagan gods slip back to their hilltop groves, all we can do with the whole inhuman array is watch it.
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I am a frayed and nibbled survivor in a fallen world, and I am getting along. I am aging and eaten and have done my share of eating too.
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The universe was not made in jest but in solemn incomprehensible earnest.
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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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Painters work from the ground up. The latest version of a painting overlays earlier versions, and obliterates them. Writers, on the other hand, work from left to right. The discardable chapters are on the left.
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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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The irrational haunts the metaphysical.
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At night I read and write, and things I have never understood become clear I reap the harvest of the rest of the year's planting
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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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What is a house but a bigger skin, and a neighborhood map but the world's skin ever expanding?
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Every book has an intrinsic impossibility, which its writer discovers as soon as his first excitement dwindles.
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There is neither a proportional relationship, nor an inverse one, between a writer’s estimation of a work in progress & its actual quality. The feeling that the work is magnificent, & the feeling that it is abominable, are both mosquitoes to be repelled, ignored, or killed, but not indulged.
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We are here to bring to consciousness the beauty and power that are around us and to praise the people who are here with us.
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Push it. examine all things intensely and relentlessly.
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When you write, you lay out a line of words. The line of words is a miner's pick, a wood carver's gouge, a surgeon's probe. You wield it, and it digs a path you follow. Soon you find yourself deep in new territory. Is it a dead end, or have you located the real subject? You will know tomorrow, or this time next year.
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The way to learn about a writer is to read the text. Or texts.
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The real and proper question is: why is it beautiful?
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Write as if you were dying. At the same time, assume you write for an audience consisting solely of terminal patients. That is, after all, the case. What would you begin writing if you knew you would die soon? What could you say to a dying person that would not enrage by its triviality?
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People who read are not too lazy to turn on the television they prefer books.
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