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Annie Dillard
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: April 30
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We live half our waking lives and all of our sleeping lives in some private, useless, and insensible waters we never mention or recall.
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Our life seems cursed to be a wiggle merely, and a wandering without end.
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Books swept me away, this way and that, one after the other I made endless vows according to their lights for I believed them.
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These are our few live seasons. Let us live them as purely as we can, in the present.
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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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Unfortunately, nature is very much a now-you-see-it, now-you-don't affair. A fish flashes, then dissolves in the water before my eyes like so much salt. Deer apparently ascend bodily into heaven the brightest oriole fades into leaves.
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What is a house but a bigger skin, and a neighborhood map but the world's skin ever expanding?
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A schedule defends from chaos and whim. A net for catching days.
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It is madness to wear ladies' straw hats and velvet hats to church we should all be wearing crash helmets. Ushers should issue life preservers and signal flares they should lash us to our pews. For the sleeping God may wake someday and take offense, or the waking God may draw us out to where we can never return.
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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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Don't save something good for a later place. Don't hold back from your students, from the poor, don't try to keep anything for yourself 'cause it'll turn to ashes.
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Cruelty is a mystery, and a waste of pain.
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Silence is not our heritage but our destiny we live where we want to live.
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According to Inuit culture in Greenland, a person possesses six or seven souls. The souls take the form of tiny people scattered throughout the body.
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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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No one escapes the wilderness on the way to the promised land.
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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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if you stay still, earth buries you, ready or not.
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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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The sensation of writing a book is the sensation of spinning, blinded by love and daring.
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