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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.
Annie Dillard
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Annie Dillard
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: April 30
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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 It has been replaced by this changeling.
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The sea pronounces something, over and over, in a hoarse whisper I cannot quite make it out.
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The soul may ask God for anything, and never fail.
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why did I have to keep learning this same thing over and over?
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We wake, if we ever wake at all, to mystery, rumors of death, beauty, violence.
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Books swept me away, this way and that, one after the other I made endless vows according to their lights for I believed them.
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He judged the instant and let go he flung himself loose into the stars.
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The painter... does not fit the paints to the world. He most certainly does not fit the world to himself. He fits himself to the paint. The self is the servant who bears the paintbox and its inherited contents.
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At its best, the sensation of writing is that of any unmerited grace. It is handed to you, but only if you look for it.
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The real and proper question is: why is it beautiful?
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The sensation of writing a book is the sensation of spinning, blinded by love and daring.
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Trees have a curious relationship to the subject of the present moment. There are many created things in the universe that outlive us, that outlive the sun, even, but I can't think about them. I live with trees.
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The courage of children and beasts is a function of innocence.
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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 universe that suckled us is a monster that does not care if we live or die--it does not care if it itself grinds to a halt. It is a beast running on chance and death, careening from nowhere to nowhere. It is fixed and blind, a robot programmed to kill. We are free and seeing we can only try to outwit it at every turn to save our lives.
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A shepherd on a hilltop who looks at a mess of stars and thinks, ‘There’s a hunter, a plow, a fish,’ is making mental connections that have as much real force in the universe as the very fires in those stars themselves.
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Nothing moves a woman so deeply as the boyhood of the man she loves.
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Anything you do not give freely and abundantly becomes lost to you.
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