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Annie Dillard
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: April 30
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Pittsburg
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Doing something does not require discipline. It creates its own discipline - with a little help from caffeine.
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Unless all ages and races of men have been deluded by the same mass hypnotist (who?), there seems to be such a thing as beauty, a grace wholly gratuitous.
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Admire the world for never ending on you -- as you would an opponent, without taking your eyes away from him, or walking away.
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poetry has been able to function quite directly as human interpretation of the raw, loose universe. It is a mixture, if you will, of journalism and metaphysics, or of science and religion.
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As soon as beauty is sought not from religion and love, but for pleasure, it degrades the seeker.
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People who read are not too lazy to turn on the television they prefer books.
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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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The novel is a game or joke shared between author and reader.
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Anything you do not give freely and abundantly becomes lost to you.
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We are most deeply asleep at the switch when we fancy we control any switches at all.
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Spend the afternoon. You can't take it with you.
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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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But enough is enough. One turns at last even from glory itself with a sigh of relief. From the depths of mystery, and even from the heights of splendor, we bounce back and hurry for the latitudes of home.
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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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The creative process obtains in all creative acts. So if I'm painting suddenly I'll see something that I didn't see before.
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As a life's work, I would remember everything - everything, against loss. I would go through life like a plankton net.
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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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It is difficult to undo our own damage, and to recall to our presence that which we have asked to leave.
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You are wrong if you think that you can in any way take the vision and tame it to the page. The page is jealous and tyrannical the page is made of time and matter the page always wins.
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Time is the continuous loop, the snakeskin with scales endlessly overlapping without beginning or end, or time is an ascending spiral if you will, like a child's toy Slinky.
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