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The way we live our days, is the way we live our lives.

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
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There is no shortage of good days. It is good lives that are hard to come by.
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Beauty and grace are performed whether or not we sense them.
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It is difficult to undo our own damage, and to recall to our presence that which we have asked to leave. It is hard to desecrate a grove and change your mind. The very holy mountains are keeping mum. We doused the burning bush and cannot rekindle it we are lighting matches in vain under every green tree.
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The world knew you before you knew the world.
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It could be that our faithlessness is a cowering cowardice born of our very smallness, a massive failure of imagination... If we were to judge nature by common sense or likelihood, we wouldnt believe the world existed.
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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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Make connections let rip and dance where you can.
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The way to learn about a writer is to read the text. Or texts.
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The sensation of writing a book is the sensation of spinning, blinded by love and daring.
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The interior life is often stupid.
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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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Appealing workplaces are to be avoided. One wants a room with no view, so imagination can meet memory in the dark.
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The point of going somewhere like the Napo River in Ecuador is not to see the most spectacular anything. It is simply to see what is there.
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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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Our life is a faint tracing on the surface of mystery.
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The creatures I seek do not want to be seen.
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