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Don't save something good for a later place. Don't hold back from your students, from the poor, don't try to keep anything for yourself 'cause it'll turn to ashes.

Annie Dillard

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Annie Dillard
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: April 30
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University Teacher
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Pittsburg
Pennsylvania
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I don't know what it is about fecundity that so appalls. I suppose it is the teeming evidence that birth and growth, which we value, are ubiquitous and blind, that life itself is so astonishingly cheap, that nature is as careless as it is bountiful, and that with extravagance goes a crushing waste that will one day include our own cheap lives.
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Writers serve as the memory of a people. They chew over our public past.
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These are our few live seasons. Let us live them as purely as we can, in the present.
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Anything you do not give freely and abundantly becomes lost to you.
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Our life seems cursed to be a wiggle merely, and a wandering without end.
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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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It was less like seeing than like being for the first time seen, knocked breathless by a powerful glance.
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Skin was earth it was soil. I could see, even on my own skin, the joined trapezoids of dust specks God had wetted and stuck with his spit the morning he made Adam from dirt. Now, all these generations later, we people could still see on our skin the inherited prints of the dust specks of Eden.
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I know only enough of God to want to worship him, by any means ready to hand.
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If we were to judge nature by common sense or likelihood, we wouldn't believe the world existed.
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Could two live that way? Could two live under the wild rose, and explore by the pond, so that the smooth mind of each is as everywhere present to the other, and as received and as unchallenged, as falling snow?
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One of the few things I know about writing is this: Spend it all, shoot it, play it, lose it, all, right away, every time. Do not hoard what seems good for a later place in the book, or for another book, give it, give it all, give it now.
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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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The universe was not made in jest but in solemn incomprehensible earnest.
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The mind wants the world to return its love, or its awareness the mind wants to know all the world, and all eternity, and God.
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