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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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Pittsburg
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Anything you do not give freely and abundantly becomes lost to you.
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I think the dying pray at the last not please, but thank you, as a guest thanks his host at the door.
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The dedicated life is worth living. You must give with your whole heart.
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