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When you write, you lay out a line of words. Soon you find yourself deep in new territory.
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Annie Dillard
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: April 30
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Pittsburg
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The creatures I seek do not want to be seen.
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I feel as though I stand at the foot of an infinitely high staircase, down which some exuberant spirit is flinging tennis ball after tennis ball, eternally, and the one thing I want in the world is a tennis ball.
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There is no shortage of good days. It is good lives that are hard to come by.
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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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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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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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How can people think that artists seek a name? A name, like a face, is something you have when you're not alone. There is no such thing as an artist: there is only the world, lit or unlit as the light allows.
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Dan Gerber is one of our finest living poets.
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On plenty of days the writer can write three or four pages, and on plenty of other days he concludes he must throw them away.
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Experiencing the present purely is being empty and hollow you catch grace as a man fills his cup under a waterfall.
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Your work is to keep cranking the flywheel that turns the gears that spin the belt in the engine of belief that keeps you and your desk in midair.
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Time is the warp and matter the weft of the woven texture of beauty in space, and death is the hurling shuttle.
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How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.
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No child on earth was ever meant to be ordinary, and you can see it in them, and they know it, too, but then the times get to them, and the wear out their brains learning what folks expect, and spend their strength trying to rise over those same folks.
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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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We wake, if we ever wake at all, to mystery, rumors of death, beauty, violence.
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Divinity is not playful. The universe was not made in jest but in solemn incomprehensibl e earnest. By a power that is unfathomably secret, and holy, and fleet. There is nothing to be done about it, but ignore it, or see.
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You have to take pains in a memoir not to hang on the reader's arm, like a drunk, and say, 'And then I did this and it was so interesting.
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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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Nothing moves a woman so deeply as the boyhood of the man she loves.
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