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Annie Dillard
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: April 30
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It could be that our faithlessness is a cowering cowardice born of our very smallness, a massive failure of imagination... If we were to judge nature by common sense or likelihood, we wouldnt believe the world existed.
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The creatures I seek do not want to be seen.
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You search, you break your heart, your back, your brain, and then-and only then-it is handed to you.
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The Pulitzer is more useful than meaningful.
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You are wrong if you think that you can in any way take the vision and tame it... The vision is not so much destroyed, exactly, as it is, by the time you have finished, forgotten. It has been replaced by this changeling.
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There is neither a proportional relationship, nor an inverse one, between a writer’s estimation of a work in progress & its actual quality. The feeling that the work is magnificent, & the feeling that it is abominable, are both mosquitoes to be repelled, ignored, or killed, but not indulged.
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The reader's ear must adjust down from loud life to the subtle, imaginary sounds of the written word. An ordinary reader picking up a book can't yet hear a thing it will take half an hour to pick up the writing's modulations, its ups and downs and louds and softs.
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Those of us who read carried around with us like martyrs a secret knowledge, a secret joy, and a secret hope: There is a life worth living where history is still taking place there are ideas worth dying for, and circumstances where courage is still prized.
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Crystals grew inside rock like arithmetic flowers. They lengthened and spread, added plane to plane in an awed and perfect obedience to an absolute geometry that even stones - maybe only the stones - understood.
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I saw in a blue haze all the world poured flat and pale between the mountains
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The mind itself is an art object ... The mind is a blue guitar on which we improvise the song of the world.
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People who read are not too lazy to turn on the television they prefer books.
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I noticed this process of waking, and predicted with terrifying logic that one of these years not far away I would be awake continuously and never slip back, and never be free of myself again.
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Every book has an intrinsic impossibility, which its writer discovers as soon as his first excitement dwindles.
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The way we live our days, is the way we live our lives.
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Every live thing is a survivor on a kind of extended emergency bivouac.
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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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Johnston's books are beautifully written and among the funniest I have ever read.
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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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Nature's silence is its one remark, and every flake of world is a chip off that old mute and immutable block.
Annie Dillard