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I write in my own journal when something extraordinary or funny happens. And there's some nice imagery in there. I don't think of what to do with it.

Annie Dillard

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Annie Dillard
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: April 30
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Pittsburg
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Nature seems to exult in abounding radicality, extremism, anarchy. If we were to judge nature by its common sense or likelihood, we wouldn't believe the world existed. In nature, improbabilities are the one stock in trade. The whole creation is one lunatic fringe. ... No claims of any and all revelations could be so far-fetched as a single giraffe.
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When I teach, I preach. I thump the Bible. I exhort my students morally. I talk to them about the dedicated life.
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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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We wake, if we ever wake at all, to mystery, rumors of death, beauty, violence.
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Last forever!' Who hasn't prayed that prayer? You were lucky to get it in the first place. The present is a freely given canvas. That it is constantly being ripped apart and washed downstream goes without saying.
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She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live.
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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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I'm a housewife: I spend far more time on housework than anything else.
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There is a muscular energy in sunlight corresponding to the spiritual energy of wind.
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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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We are most deeply asleep at the switch when we fancy we control any switches at all.
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I breathed the air of history all unaware, and walked oblivious through its littered layers.
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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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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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It is madness to wear ladies' straw hats and velvet hats to church we should all be wearing crash helmets. Ushers should issue life preservers and signal flares they should lash us to our pews. For the sleeping God may wake someday and take offense, or the waking God may draw us out to where we can never return.
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