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Private life, book life, took place where words met imagination without passing through the world.

Annie Dillard

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

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I had been my whole life a bell, and never knew it until at that moment I was lifted and struck.
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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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For all the insularity of the old guard, Pittsburgh was always an open and democratic town.
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I worked so hard all my life, and all I want to do now is read.
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The world knew you before you knew the world.
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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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I work mornings only. I go out to lunch. Afternoons I play with the baby, walk with my husband, or shovel mail.
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I am a fugitive and a vagabond, a sojourner seeking signs.
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Whenever there is stillness there is the still small voice, God's speaking from the whirlwind, nature's old song, and dance.
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About five years ago I saw a mockingbird make a straight vertical descent from the roof gutter of a four-story building. It was an act as careless and spontaneous as the curl of a stem or the kindling of a star.
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Aim for the chopping block. If you aim for the wood, you will have nothing. Aim past the wood, aim through the wood aim for the chopping block.
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I woke at intervals until . . . the intervals of waking tipped the scales, and I was more often awake than not.
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The way to learn about a writer is to read the text. Or texts.
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The point of going somewhere like the Napo River in Ecuador is not to see the most spectacular anything. It is simply to see what is there.
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The creatures I seek do not want to be seen.
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