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No one escapes the wilderness on the way to the promised land.
Annie Dillard
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Annie Dillard
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: April 30
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Young children have no sense of wonder. They bewilder well, but few things surprise them. All of it is new to young children, after all, and equally gratuitous.
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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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Write as if you were dying. At the same time, assume you write for an audience consisting solely of terminal patients. That is, after all, the case. What would you begin writing if you knew you would die soon? What could you say to a dying person that would not enrage by its triviality?
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I had been my whole life a bell, and never knew it until at that moment I was lifted and struck.
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Our life seems cursed to be a wiggle merely, and a wandering without end.
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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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Johnston's books are beautifully written and among the funniest I have ever read.
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Just think: in all the clean, beautiful reaches of the solar system, our planet alone is a blot our planet alone has death.
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Nature's silence is its one remark, and every flake of world is a chip off that old mute and immutable block.
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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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I had been chipping at the world idly, and had by accident uncovered vast and labyrinthine further worlds within it.
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I woke at intervals until . . . the intervals of waking tipped the scales, and I was more often awake than not.
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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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I saw in a blue haze all the world poured flat and pale between the mountains
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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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We are here to witness. There is nothing else to do with those mute materials we do not need. Until Larry teaches his stone to talk, until God changes his mind, or until the pagan gods slip back to their hilltop groves, all we can do with the whole inhuman array is watch it.
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The dear, stupid body is as easily satisfied as a spaniel.
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It is madness to wear ladies' straw hats and velvet hats to church we should all be wearing crash helmets. Ushers should issue life preservers and signal flares they should lash us to our pews. For the sleeping God may wake someday and take offense, or the waking God may draw us out to where we can never return.
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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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These are our few live seasons. Let us live them as purely as we can, in the present.
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