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Annie Dillard
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: April 30
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The dedicated life is worth living. You must give with your whole heart.
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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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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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Why are we reading, if not in hope of beauty laid bare, life heightened and its deepest mystery probed?
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The way we live our days, is the way we live our lives.
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The real and proper question is: why is it beautiful?
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The novel is a game or joke shared between author and reader.
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I don't know what it is about fecundity that so appalls. I suppose it is the teeming evidence that birth and growth, which we value, are ubiquitous and blind, that life itself is so astonishingly cheap, that nature is as careless as it is bountiful, and that with extravagance goes a crushing waste that will one day include our own cheap lives.
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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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Nature's silence is its one remark, and every flake of world is a chip off that old mute and immutable block.
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On plenty of days the writer can write three or four pages, and on plenty of other days he concludes he must throw them away.
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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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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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The creatures I seek do not want to be seen.
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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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The dear, stupid body is as easily satisfied as a spaniel.
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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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One of the few things I know about writing is this: Spend it all, shoot it, play it, lose it, all, right away, every time. Do not hoard what seems good for a later place in the book, or for another book, give it, give it all, give it now.
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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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Silence is not our heritage but our destiny we live where we want to live.
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