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Novels written with film contracts in mind have a faint but unmistakable, and ruinous, odor.
Annie Dillard
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Annie Dillard
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: April 30
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Pittsburg
Pennsylvania
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[Insects] are not only cold-blooded, and green- and yellow-blooded, but are also cased in a clacking horn. They have rigid eyes and brains strung down their backs. But they make up the bulk of our comrades-at-life, so I look to them for a glimmer of companionship.
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Anything you do not give freely and abundantly becomes lost to you.
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Caring passionately about something isn't against nature, and it isn't against human nature. It's what we're here to do.
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Our life seems cursed to be a wiggle merely, and a wandering without end.
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Last forever!' Who hasn't prayed that prayer? You were lucky to get it in the first place. The present is a freely given canvas. That it is constantly being ripped apart and washed downstream goes without saying.
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What a hideout: Holiness lies spread and borne over the surface of time and stuff like color.
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I would like to live. . . open to time and death painlessly, noticing everything, remembering nothing, choosing the given with a fierce and pointed will.
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In literary history, generation follows generation in a rage.
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I wake up thinking: What am I reading? What will I read next? I'm terrified that I'll run out, that I will read through all I want to, and be forced to learn wildflowers at last, to keep awake.
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You are wrong if you think that you can in any way take the vision and tame it... The vision is not so much destroyed, exactly, as it is, by the time you have finished, forgotten. It has been replaced by this changeling.
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The way to learn about a writer is to read the text. Or texts.
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Trees have a curious relationship to the subject of the present moment. There are many created things in the universe that outlive us, that outlive the sun, even, but I can't think about them. I live with trees.
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When I teach, I preach. I thump the Bible. I exhort my students morally. I talk to them about the dedicated life.
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Your feelings are none of your business.
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The dear, stupid body is as easily satisfied as a spaniel.
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Why do we people in churches seem like cheerful, brainless tourists on a packaged tour of the Absolute?
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A schedule is a mock-up of reason and order - willed, faked, and so brought into being.
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The sensation of writing a book is the sensation of spinning, blinded by love and daring. It is the sensation of a stunt pilot's turning barrel rolls, or an inchworm's blind rearing from a stem in search of a route. At its worst, it feels like alligator wrestling, at the level of the sentence.
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People who take photographs during their whole vacation won't remember their vacation. They'll only remember what photographs they took.
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I never met a man who was shaken by a field of identical blades of grass. An acre of poppies and a forest of spruce boggle no one's mind.
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