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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.
Annie Dillard
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Annie Dillard
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: April 30
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Writing a book is like rearing children -- willpower has very little to do with it. If you have a little baby crying in the middle of the night, and if you depend only on willpower to get you out of bed to feed the baby, that baby will starve. You do it out of love.
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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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It has always been a happy thought to me that the creek runs on all night, new every minute, whether I wish it or know it or care, as a closed book on a shelf continues to whisper to itself its own inexhaustible tale.
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I had been chipping at the world idly, and had by accident uncovered vast and labyrinthine further worlds within it.
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The universe is illusion merely, not one speck of it real, and we are not only its victims, falling always into or smashed by a planet slung by the sun-but also its captives, bound by the mineral-made ropes of our senses.
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When I first read the words 'introvert' and 'extrovert' when I was 10, I thought I was both.
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The way we live our days, is the way we live our lives.
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Buddhism notes that it is always a mistake to think your soul can go it alone.
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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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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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Knowing you are alive is watching on every side your generation's short time falling away as fast as rivers drop through air, and feeling it hit.
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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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Silence is not our heritage but our destiny we live where we want to live.
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Young children have no sense of wonder. They bewilder well, but few things surprise them. All of it is new to young children, after all, and equally gratuitous.
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Unfortunately, nature is very much a now-you-see-it, now-you-don't affair. A fish flashes, then dissolves in the water before my eyes like so much salt. Deer apparently ascend bodily into heaven the brightest oriole fades into leaves.
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Our life seems cursed to be a wiggle merely, and a wandering without end.
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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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The surest sign of age is loneliness.
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I wake expectant, hoping to see a new thing.
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It was less like seeing than like being for the first time seen, knocked breathless by a powerful glance.
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