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Johnston's books are beautifully written and among the funniest I have ever read.

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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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I wake expectant, hoping to see a new thing.
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I would like to learn, or remember, how to live.
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I feel as though I stand at the foot of an infinitely high staircase, down which some exuberant spirit is flinging tennis ball after tennis ball, eternally, and the one thing I want in the world is a tennis ball.
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Fiction keeps its audience by retaining the world as its subject matter. People like the world. Many people actually prefer it to art and spend their days by choice in the thick of it.
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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 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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Every spring he vowed to quit teaching school, and every summer he missed his pupils and searched for them on the streets.
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The surest sign of age is loneliness.
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I noticed this process of waking, and predicted with terrifying logic that one of these years not far away I would be awake continuously and never slip back, and never be free of myself again.
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The sense impressions of one-celled animals are not edited for the brain. This is philosophically interesting in a rather mournful way, since it means that only the simplest animals perceive the universe as it is.
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No one can help you if you're stuck in a work. Only you can figure a way out, because only you can see the work's possibilities.
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We live in all we seek.
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The mind of the writer does indeed do something before it dies, and so does its owner, but I would be hard put to call it living.
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As soon as beauty is sought not from religion and love, but for pleasure, it degrades the seeker.
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Your feelings are none of your business.
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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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The mind itself is an art object ... The mind is a blue guitar on which we improvise the song of the world.
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The dear, stupid body is as easily satisfied as a spaniel.
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Nothing on earth is more gladdening than knowing we must roll up our sleeves and move back the boundaries of the humanly possible once more.
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If you're going to publish a book, you probably are going to make a fool of yourself.
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