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Annie Dillard
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: April 30
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Pittsburg
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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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Doing something does not require discipline. It creates its own discipline - with a little help from caffeine.
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At night I read and write, and things I have never understood become clear I reap the harvest of the rest of the year's planting
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I breathed the air of history all unaware, and walked oblivious through its littered layers.
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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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Our life is a faint tracing on the surface of mystery.
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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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At a certain point, you say to the woods, to the sea, to the mountains, the world, Now I am ready. Now I will stop and be wholly attentive. You empty yourself and wait, listening.
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The novel is a game or joke shared between author and reader.
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The life of sensation is the life of greed it requires more and more. The life of the spirit requires less and less.
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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 secret is not to write about what you love best, but about what you, alone, love at all.
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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.
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Your work is to keep cranking the flywheel that turns the gears that spin the belt in the engine of belief that keeps you and your desk in midair.
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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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I'm a housewife: I spend far more time on housework than anything else.
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I am a frayed and nibbled survivor in a fallen world, and I am getting along. I am aging and eaten and have done my share of eating too.
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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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We are here on the planet only once, and might as well get a feel for the place.
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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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