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I worked so hard all my life, and all I want to do now is read.

Annie Dillard

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Annie Dillard
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: April 30
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Essayist
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University Teacher
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Pittsburg
Pennsylvania
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The creatures I seek do not want to be seen.
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What I call innocence is the spirit's unself-conscious state at any moment of pure devotion to any object. It is at once a receptiveness and total concentration.
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The mind wants the world to return its love, or its awareness the mind wants to know all the world, and all eternity, and God.
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At a certain point, you say to the woods, to the sea, to the mountains, the world, Now I am ready. Now I will stop and be wholly attentive. You empty yourself and wait, listening.
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You are wrong if you think that you can in any way take the vision and tame it to the page. The page is jealous and tyrannical the page is made of time and matter the page always wins.
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Just once I wanted a task that required all the joy I had. Day after day I had noticed that if I waited long enough, my strong unexpressed joy would dwindle and dissipate inside me, like a fire subsiding . . . . Just this once I wanted to let it rip.
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I breathed the air of history all unaware, and walked oblivious through its littered layers.
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The interior life is often stupid.
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The extravagant gesture is the very stuff of creation.
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You can't test courage cautiously, so I ran hard and waved my arms hard, happy.
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I think the dying pray at the last not please, but thank you, as a guest thanks his host at the door.
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