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The dear, stupid body is as easily satisfied as a spaniel.
Annie Dillard
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Annie Dillard
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: April 30
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The Pulitzer is more useful than meaningful.
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I breathed the air of history all unaware, and walked oblivious through its littered layers.
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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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