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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.
Annie Dillard
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Annie Dillard
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: April 30
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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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The secret is not to write about what you love best, but about what you, alone, love at all.
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It could be that our faithlessness is a cowering cowardice born of our very smallness, a massive failure of imagination... If we were to judge nature by common sense or likelihood, we wouldnt believe the world existed.
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Does anything eat flowers. I couldn't recall having seen anything eat a flower - are they nature's privileged pets?
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It makes more sense to write one big book - a novel or nonfiction narrative - than to write many stories or essays. Into a long, ambitious project you can fit or pour all you possess and learn.
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We are here to bring to consciousness the beauty and power that are around us and to praise the people who are here with us.
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At night I read and write, and things I have never understood become clear I reap the harvest of the rest of the year's planting
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Writers serve as the memory of a people. They chew over our public past.
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On plenty of days the writer can write three or four pages, and on plenty of other days he concludes he must throw them away.
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I would like to learn, or remember, how to live.
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The life of sensation is the life of greed it requires more and more. The life of the spirit requires less and less.
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By dipping us children in the Bible so often, they hoped, I think, to give our lives a serious tint, and to provide us with quaintly magnificent snatches of prayer to produce as charms while, say, being mugged for our cash or jewels.
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The surest sign of age is loneliness.
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Write as if you were dying. At the same time, assume you write for an audience consisting solely of terminal patients. That is, after all, the case. What would you begin writing if you knew you would die soon? What could you say to a dying person that would not enrage by its triviality?
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There is a muscular energy in sunlight corresponding to the spiritual energy of wind.
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Wherever we go, there seems to be only one business at hand - that of finding workable compromises between the sublimity of our ideas and the absurdity of the fact of us.
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I woke in bits, like all children, piecemeal over the years. I discovered myself and the world, and forgot them, and discovered them again.
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The universe was not made in jest but in solemn incomprehensible earnest.
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The dedicated life is worth living. You must give with your whole heart.
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Spend the afternoon. You can't take it with you.
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