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Put yourself out of your misery.

Annie Dillard

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Annie Dillard
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: April 30
Author
Essayist
Novelist
Poet
University Teacher
Writer
Pittsburg
Pennsylvania
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Misery

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Writing a book is like rearing children -- willpower has very little to do with it. If you have a little baby crying in the middle of the night, and if you depend only on willpower to get you out of bed to feed the baby, that baby will starve. You do it out of love.
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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. It is hard to desecrate a grove and change your mind. The very holy mountains are keeping mum. We doused the burning bush and cannot rekindle it we are lighting matches in vain under every green tree.
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I cannot cause light the most I can do is try to put myself in the path of its beam.
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No one can help you if you're stuck in a work. Only you can figure a way out, because only you can see the work's possibilities.
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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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The more you read, the more you will write. The better the stuff you read, the better the stuff you will write.
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Wherever we go, there seems to be only one business at hand - that of finding workable compromises between the sublimity of our ideas and the absurdity of the fact of us.
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The Pulitzer is more useful than meaningful.
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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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It is ironic that the one thing that all religions recognize as separating us from our creator, our very self-consciousness, is also the one thing that divides us from our fellow creatures. It was a bitter birthday present from evolution.
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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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Self-consciousness is the curse of the city and all that sophistication implies.
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Almost all of my many passionate interests, and my many changes of mind, came through books. Books prompted the many vows I made to myself.
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The mind itself is an art object. It is a Mondrian canvas onto whose homemade grids it fits its own preselected products. Our knowledge is contextual and only contextual. Ordering and invention coincide: we call their collaboration knowledge.
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Our life is a faint tracing on the surface of mystery.
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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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An Eskimo shaman said, Life's greatest danger lies in the fact that man's food consists entirely of souls.
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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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