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When I first read the words 'introvert' and 'extrovert' when I was 10, I thought I was both.

Annie Dillard

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Annie Dillard
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: April 30
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Pittsburg
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Landscape consists in the multiple, overlapping intricacies and forms that exist in a given space at a moment in time.
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The way to learn about a writer is to read the text. Or texts.
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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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It was less like seeing than like being for the first time seen, knocked breathless by a powerful glance.
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I am a frayed and nibbled survivor in a fallen world, and I am getting along. I am aging and eaten and have done my share of eating too.
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There were no formerly heroic times, and there was no formerly pure generation. There is no one here but us chickens, and so it has always been.
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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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The surest sign of age is loneliness.
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Spend the afternoon. You can't take it with you.
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Your freedom as a writer is not freedom of expression in the sense of wild blurting you may not let rip. It is life at its most free, if you are fortunate enough to be able to try it, because you select your materials, invent your task, and pace yourself.
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For all the insularity of the old guard, Pittsburgh was always an open and democratic town.
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Nature seems to exult in abounding radicality, extremism, anarchy. If we were to judge nature by its common sense or likelihood, we wouldn't believe the world existed. In nature, improbabilities are the one stock in trade. The whole creation is one lunatic fringe. ... No claims of any and all revelations could be so far-fetched as a single giraffe.
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Geography is the key, the crucial accident of birth. A piece of protein could be a snail, a sea lion, or a systems analyst, but it had to start somewhere. This is not science it is merely metaphor. And the landscape in which the protein starts shapes its end as surely as bowls shape water.
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No one escapes the wilderness on the way to the promised land.
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The universe was not made in jest but in solemn incomprehensible earnest.
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Just think: in all the clean, beautiful reaches of the solar system, our planet alone is a blot our planet alone has death.
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We wake, if ever at all, to mystery.
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I woke in bits, like all children, piecemeal over the years. I discovered myself and the world, and forgot them, and discovered them again.
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