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The creative process obtains in all creative acts. So if I'm painting suddenly I'll see something that I didn't see before.
Annie Dillard
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Annie Dillard
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: April 30
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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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The answer must be, I think, that beauty and grace are performed whether or not we will or sense them. The least we can do is try to be there.
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Our family was on the lunatic fringe. My mother was always completely irrepressible. My father made crowd noises into a microphone.
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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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By dipping us children in the Bible so often, they hoped, I think, to give our lives a serious tint, and to provide us with quaintly magnificent snatches of prayer to produce as charms while, say, being mugged for our cash or jewels.
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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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You can't test courage cautiously, so I ran hard and waved my arms hard, happy.
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Every spring he vowed to quit teaching school, and every summer he missed his pupils and searched for them on the streets.
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Put yourself out of your misery.
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