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The sea pronounces something, over and over, in a hoarse whisper I cannot quite make it out.
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Annie Dillard
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: April 30
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Could two live that way? Could two live under the wild rose, and explore by the pond, so that the smooth mind of each is as everywhere present to the other, and as received and as unchallenged, as falling snow?
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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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As soon as beauty is sought not from religion and love, but for pleasure, it degrades the seeker.
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You search, you break your heart, your back, your brain, and then-and only then-it is handed to you.
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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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You can't test courage cautiously.
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The mind itself is an art object ... The mind is a blue guitar on which we improvise the song of the world.
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Spend the afternoon. You can't take it with you.
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What have we been doing all these centuries but trying to call God back to the mountain, or, failing that, raise a peep out of anything that isn't us? What is the difference between a cathedral and a physics lab? Are not they both saying: Hello? We spy on whales and on interstellar radio objects we starve ourselves and pray till we're blue.
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There were no formerly heroic times, and there was no formerly pure generation. There is no one here but us chickens, and so it has always been.
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There is no such thing as an artist: there is only the world lit or unlit as the light allows. When the candle is burning, who looks at the wick? When the candle is out, who needs it?
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Nothing moves a woman so deeply as the boyhood of the man she loves.
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The secret is not to write about what you love best, but about what you, alone, love at all.
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The universe is illusion merely, not one speck of it real, and we are not only its victims, falling always into or smashed by a planet slung by the sun-but also its captives, bound by the mineral-made ropes of our senses.
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The irrational haunts the metaphysical.
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Why are we reading, if not in hope of beauty laid bare, life heightened and its deepest mystery probed?
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It makes more sense to write one big book - a novel or nonfiction narrative - than to write many stories or essays. Into a long, ambitious project you can fit or pour all you possess and learn.
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A schedule defends from chaos and whim. A net for catching days.
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I saw in a blue haze all the world poured flat and pale between the mountains
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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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