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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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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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Experiencing the present purely is being empty and hollow you catch grace as a man fills his cup under a waterfall.
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The mind itself is an art object. It is a Mondrian canvas onto whose homemade grids it fits its own preselected products. Our knowledge is contextual and only contextual. Ordering and invention coincide: we call their collaboration knowledge.
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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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The interior life is often stupid.
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We are here to witness. There is nothing else to do with those mute materials we do not need. Until Larry teaches his stone to talk, until God changes his mind, or until the pagan gods slip back to their hilltop groves, all we can do with the whole inhuman array is watch it.
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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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One of the few things I know about writing is this: Spend it all, shoot it, play it, lose it, all, right away, every time. Do not hoard what seems good for a later place in the book, or for another book, give it, give it all, give it now.
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Time is the warp and matter the weft of the woven texture of beauty in space, and death is the hurling shuttle.
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Young children have no sense of wonder. They bewilder well, but few things surprise them. All of it is new to young children, after all, and equally gratuitous.
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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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We wake, if we ever wake at all, to mystery, rumors of death, beauty, violence.
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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'm a housewife: I spend far more time on housework than anything else.
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