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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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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 sensation of writing a book is the sensation of spinning, blinded by love and daring.
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We are here on the planet only once, and might as well get a feel for the place.
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Our life seems cursed to be a wiggle merely, and a wandering without end.
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She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live.
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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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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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At night I read and write, and things I have never understood become clear I reap the harvest of the rest of the year's planting
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Fiction keeps its audience by retaining the world as its subject matter. People like the world. Many people actually prefer it to art and spend their days by choice in the thick of it.
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Write about winter in the summer. Describe Norway as Ibsen did, from a desk in Italy describe Dublin as James Joyce did, from a desk in Paris. Willa Cather wrote her prairie novels in New York City Mark Twain wrote Huckleberry Finn in Hartford, Connecticut. Recently, scholars learned that Walt Whitman rarely left his room.
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What is a house but a bigger skin, and a neighborhood map but the world's skin ever expanding?
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I have since only rarely seen the tree with the lights in it. The vision comes and goes, mostly goes, but I live for it, for the moment when the mountains open and a new light roars in spate through the crack, and the mountains slam.
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The creatures I seek do not want to be seen.
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Unless all ages and races of men have been deluded by the same mass hypnotist (who?), there seems to be such a thing as beauty, a grace wholly gratuitous.
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The sense impressions of one-celled animals are not edited for the brain. This is philosophically interesting in a rather mournful way, since it means that only the simplest animals perceive the universe as it is.
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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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Silence is not our heritage but our destiny we live where we want to live.
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All my books started out as extravagant and ended up pure and plain.
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