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Annie Dillard

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Annie Dillard
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: April 30
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Theirs is the mystery of continuous creation and all that providence implies: the uncertainty of vision, the horror of the fixed, the dissolution of the present, the intricacy of beauty, the pressure of fecundity, the elusiveness of the free, and the flawed nature of perfection.
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We have not yet encountered any god who is as merciful as a man who flicks a beetle over on its feet.
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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 irrational haunts the metaphysical.
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We live half our waking lives and all of our sleeping lives in some private, useless, and insensible waters we never mention or recall.
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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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Old memories are very easy to get except that once you write about something you've destroyed it.
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How can people think that artists seek a name? A name, like a face, is something you have when you're not alone. There is no such thing as an artist: there is only the world, lit or unlit as the light allows.
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About five years ago I saw a mockingbird make a straight vertical descent from the roof gutter of a four-story building. It was an act as careless and spontaneous as the curl of a stem or the kindling of a star.
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If I actually believed that the progress of human understanding depended on our crop of contemporary novelists, I would shoot myself.
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If we were to judge nature by common sense or likelihood, we wouldn't believe the world existed.
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No child on earth was ever meant to be ordinary, and you can see it in them, and they know it, too, but then the times get to them, and the wear out their brains learning what folks expect, and spend their strength trying to rise over those same folks.
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You do not have to sit outside in the dark. If, however, you want to look at the stars, you will find that darkness is necessary. But the stars neither require nor demand it.
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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 of the writer does indeed do something before it dies, and so does its owner, but I would be hard put to call it living.
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Let the grass die. I let almost all of my indoor plants die from neglect while I was writing the book. There are all kinds of ways to live. You can take your choice. You can keep a tidy house, and when St. Peter asks you what you did with your life, you can say, I kept a tidy house, I made my own cheese balls.
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Then why did you tell me?
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I had good innings, as the British say. I wrote for 38 years at the top of my form, and I wanted to quit on a high note.
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What a hideout: Holiness lies spread and borne over the surface of time and stuff like color.
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What is a house but a bigger skin, and a neighborhood map but the world's skin ever expanding?
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