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Annie Dillard
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: April 30
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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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I feel as though I stand at the foot of an infinitely high staircase, down which some exuberant spirit is flinging tennis ball after tennis ball, eternally, and the one thing I want in the world is a tennis ball.
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The extravagant gesture is the very stuff of creation.
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We teach our children one thing only, as we were taught: to wake up. We teach our children to look alive there, to join by words and activities the life of human culture on the planet
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You can't test courage cautiously.
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The silence is all there is. It is the alpha and the omega, it is God's brooding over the face of the waters it is the blinded note of the ten thousand things, the whine of wings. You take a step in the right direction to pray to this silence, and even to address the prayer to World. Distinctions blur. Quit your tents. Pray without ceasing.
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I'm a housewife: I spend far more time on housework than anything else.
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Like everyone in his right mind, I feared Santa Claus.
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There must be bands of enthusiasts for everything on earth-fanatics who shared a vocabulary, a batch of technical skills and equipment, and, perhaps, a vision of some single slice of the beauty and mystery of things, of their complexity, fascination, and unexpectedness.
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Why are we reading, if not in hope of beauty laid bare, life heightened and its deepest mystery probed?
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Many writers do little else but sit in small rooms recalling the real world.
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Even if things are as bad as they could possible be, and as meaningless, then matters of truth are themselves indifferent we may as well please our sensibilities and, with as much spirit as we can muster, go out with a buck and a wing.
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Aim for the chopping block. If you aim for the wood, you will have nothing. Aim past the wood, aim through the wood aim for the chopping block.
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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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Your freedom as a writer is not freedom of expression in the sense of wild blurting you may not let rip. It is life at its most free, if you are fortunate enough to be able to try it, because you select your materials, invent your task, and pace yourself.
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It was less like seeing than like being for the first time seen, knocked breathless by a powerful glance.
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What is important is the moment of opening a life and feeling it touch--with an electric hiss and cry--this speckled mineral sphere, our present world.
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No one escapes the wilderness on the way to the promised land.
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Caring passionately about something isn't against nature, and it isn't against human nature. It's what we're here to do.
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Write as if you are dying.
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