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The more you read, the more you will write. The better the stuff you read, the better the stuff you will write.

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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By dipping us children in the Bible so often, they hoped, I think, to give our lives a serious tint, and to provide us with quaintly magnificent snatches of prayer to produce as charms while, say, being mugged for our cash or jewels.
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Silence is not our heritage but our destiny we live where we want to live.
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Johnston's books are beautifully written and among the funniest I have ever read.
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if you stay still, earth buries you, ready or not.
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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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These are our few live seasons. Let us live them as purely as we can, in the present.
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Push it. examine all things intensely and relentlessly.
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poetry has been able to function quite directly as human interpretation of the raw, loose universe. It is a mixture, if you will, of journalism and metaphysics, or of science and religion.
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The silence is all there is. It is the alpha and the omega, it is God's brooding over the face of the waters it is the blinded note of the ten thousand things, the whine of wings. You take a step in the right direction to pray to this silence, and even to address the prayer to World. Distinctions blur. Quit your tents. Pray without ceasing.
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Divinity is not playful. The universe was not made in jest but in solemn incomprehensibl e earnest. By a power that is unfathomably secret, and holy, and fleet. There is nothing to be done about it, but ignore it, or see.
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When I first read the words 'introvert' and 'extrovert' when I was 10, I thought I was both.
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I noticed this process of waking, and predicted with terrifying logic that one of these years not far away I would be awake continuously and never slip back, and never be free of myself again.
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The novel is a game or joke shared between author and reader.
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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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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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Old memories are very easy to get except that once you write about something you've destroyed it.
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There is a muscular energy in sunlight corresponding to the spiritual energy of wind.
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If we were to judge nature by common sense or likelihood, we wouldn't believe the world existed.
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No, the point is not only does time fly and do we die, but that in these reckless conditions we live at all, and are vouchsafed, for the duration of certain inexplicable moments, to know it.
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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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