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Silence is not our heritage but our destiny we live where we want to live.

Annie Dillard

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Annie Dillard
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: April 30
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University Teacher
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Pittsburg
Pennsylvania
Annie Dillard Doak
Silence
Live
Heritage
Destiny

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The soul may ask God for anything, and never fail.
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You empty yourself and wait, listening. After a time you hear it: There is nothing there...You feel the world's word as a tension, a hum, a single chorused note everywhere the same. This is it: This hum is the silence.
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If I actually believed that the progress of human understanding depended on our crop of contemporary novelists, I would shoot myself.
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He judged the instant and let go he flung himself loose into the stars.
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I would like to learn, or remember, how to live.
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