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Annie Dillard
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: April 30
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I am sorry I ran from you. I am still running, running from that knowledge, that eye, that love from which there is no refuge. For you meant only love, and love, and I felt only fear, and pain. So once in Israel love came to us incarnate, stood in the doorway between two worlds, and we were all afraid.
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There is no such thing as an artist: there is only the world lit or unlit as the light allows. When the candle is burning, who looks at the wick? When the candle is out, who needs it?
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We still and always want waking.
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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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How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. What we do with this hour and with that one, is what we are doing.
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Could two live that way? Could two live under the wild rose, and explore by the pond, so that the smooth mind of each is as everywhere present to the other, and as received and as unchallenged, as falling snow?
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Geography is the key, the crucial accident of birth. A piece of protein could be a snail, a sea lion, or a systems analyst, but it had to start somewhere. This is not science it is merely metaphor. And the landscape in which the protein starts shapes its end as surely as bowls shape water.
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I work mornings only. I go out to lunch. Afternoons I play with the baby, walk with my husband, or shovel mail.
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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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Knowing you are alive is watching on every side your generation's short time falling away as fast as rivers drop through air, and feeling it hit.
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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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Appealing workplaces are to be avoided. One wants a room with no view, so imagination can meet memory in the dark.
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Make connections let rip and dance where you can.
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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's a little silly to finally learn how to write at this age. But I long ago realized I was secretly sincere.
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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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Cruelty is a mystery, and the waste of pain. But if we describe a word to compass these things, a world that is a long, brute game, then we bump against another mystery: the inrush of power and delight, the canary that sings on the skull.
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Spend the afternoon. You can't take it with you.
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What could you say to a dying person that would not enrage by its triviality?
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Write about winter in the summer.
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