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Annie Dillard
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: April 30
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Pittsburg
Pennsylvania
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The world knew you before you knew the world.
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As a life's work, I would remember everything - everything, against loss. I would go through life like a plankton net.
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Our life is a faint tracing on the surface of mystery.
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Your freedom as a writer is not freedom of expression in the sense of wild blurting you may not let rip. It is life at its most free, if you are fortunate enough to be able to try it, because you select your materials, invent your task, and pace yourself.
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I wake expectant, hoping to see a new thing.
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I would like to learn, or remember, how to live.
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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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I am sorry I ran from you. I am still running, running from that knowledge, that eye, that love from which there is no refuge. For you meant only love, and love, and I felt only fear, and pain. So once in Israel love came to us incarnate, stood in the doorway between two worlds, and we were all afraid.
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It is ironic that the one thing that all religions recognize as separating us from our creator, our very self-consciousness, is also the one thing that divides us from our fellow creatures. It was a bitter birthday present from evolution.
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Landscape consists in the multiple, overlapping intricacies and forms that exist in a given space at a moment in time.
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God gave me a talent to draw. I 'owed' it to him to develop the talent.
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Like any child, I slid into myself perfectly fitted, as a diver meets her reflection in a pool. Her fingertips enter the fingertips on the water, her wrists slide up her arms. The diver wraps herself in her reflection wholly, sealing it at the toes, and wears it as she climbs rising from the pool, and ever after.
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The Pulitzer is more useful than meaningful.
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Hone and spread your spirit till you yourself are a sail, whetted, translucent, broadside to the merest puff.
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There is a muscular energy in sunlight corresponding to the spiritual energy of wind.
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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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Art is like an ill-trained Labrador retriever that drags you out into traffic.
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The courage of children and beasts is a function of innocence.
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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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I know only enough of God to want to worship him, by any means ready to hand.
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