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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.

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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Whenever there is stillness there is the still small voice, God's speaking from the whirlwind, nature's old song, and dance.
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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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There is a muscular energy in sunlight corresponding to the spiritual energy of wind.
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I think it would be well, and proper, and obedient, and pure, to grasp your one necessity and not let it go, to dangle from it limp wherever it takes you.
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The reader's ear must adjust down from loud life to the subtle, imaginary sounds of the written word. An ordinary reader picking up a book can't yet hear a thing it will take half an hour to pick up the writing's modulations, its ups and downs and louds and softs.
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One of the few things I know about writing is this: Spend it all, shoot it, play it, lose it, all, right away, every time. Do not hoard what seems good for a later place in the book, or for another book, give it, give it all, give it now.
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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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Admire the world for never ending on you -- as you would an opponent, without taking your eyes away from him, or walking away.
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The creatures I seek do not want to be seen.
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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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Anything you do not give freely and abundantly becomes lost to you.
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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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We live half our waking lives and all of our sleeping lives in some private, useless, and insensible waters we never mention or recall.
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[Insects] are not only cold-blooded, and green- and yellow-blooded, but are also cased in a clacking horn. They have rigid eyes and brains strung down their backs. But they make up the bulk of our comrades-at-life, so I look to them for a glimmer of companionship.
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