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It's a little silly to finally learn how to write at this age. But I long ago realized I was secretly sincere.

Annie Dillard

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Annie Dillard
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: April 30
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Pittsburg
Pennsylvania
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Last forever!' Who hasn't prayed that prayer? You were lucky to get it in the first place. The present is a freely given canvas. That it is constantly being ripped apart and washed downstream goes without saying.
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Similarly, the impulse to keep to yourself what you have learned is not only shameful, it is destructive. Anything you do not give freely and abundantly becomes lost to you. You open your safe and find ashes.
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Novels written with film contracts in mind have a faint but unmistakable, and ruinous, odor.
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You empty yourself and wait, listening. After a time you hear it: There is nothing there...You feel the world's word as a tension, a hum, a single chorused note everywhere the same. This is it: This hum is the silence.
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Our life is a faint tracing on the surface of mystery.
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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 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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We are here to bring to consciousness the beauty and power that are around us and to praise the people who are here with us.
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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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We wake, if ever at all, to mystery.
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You do not have to sit outside in the dark. If, however, you want to look at the stars, you will find that darkness is necessary. But the stars neither require nor demand it.
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I can't dance anymore. Total knee replacements. I can't do anything anymore.
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I come down to the water to cool my eyes. But everywhere I look I see fire that which isn't flint is tinder, and the whole world sparks and flames.
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The Pulitzer is more useful than meaningful.
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There are no events but thoughts and the heart's hard turning, the heart's slow learning where to love and whom. The rest is merely gossip, and tales for other times.
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The creative process obtains in all creative acts. So if I'm painting suddenly I'll see something that I didn't see before.
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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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It was less like seeing than like being for the first time seen, knocked breathless by a powerful glance.
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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.
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We live in all we seek.
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