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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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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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A schedule is a mock-up of reason and order - willed, faked, and so brought into being.
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You are wrong if you think that you can in any way take the vision and tame it to the page. The page is jealous and tyrannical the page is made of time and matter the page always wins.
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The mind itself is an art object. It is a Mondrian canvas onto whose homemade grids it fits its own preselected products. Our knowledge is contextual and only contextual. Ordering and invention coincide: we call their collaboration knowledge.
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The real and proper question is: why is it beautiful?
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The way we live our days, is the way we live our lives.
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Wherever we go, there seems to be only one business at hand - that of finding workable compromises between the sublimity of our ideas and the absurdity of the fact of us.
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The secret is not to write about what you love best, but about what you, alone, love at all.
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I noticed this process of waking, and predicted with terrifying logic that one of these years not far away I would be awake continuously and never slip back, and never be free of myself again.
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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.
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Experiencing the present purely is being empty and hollow you catch grace as a man fills his cup under a waterfall.
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No one escapes the wilderness on the way to the promised land.
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The creatures I seek do not want to be seen.
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Johnston's books are beautifully written and among the funniest I have ever read.
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Landscape consists in the multiple, overlapping intricacies and forms that exist in a given space at a moment in time.
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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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What have we been doing all these centuries but trying to call God back to the mountain, or, failing that, raise a peep out of anything that isn't us? What is the difference between a cathedral and a physics lab? Are not they both saying: Hello? We spy on whales and on interstellar radio objects we starve ourselves and pray till we're blue.
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I woke in bits, like all children, piecemeal over the years. I discovered myself and the world, and forgot them, and discovered them again.
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There is a muscular energy in sunlight corresponding to the spiritual energy of wind.
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I breathed the air of history all unaware, and walked oblivious through its littered layers.
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