American - Author | April 30, 1945 -
There is no such thing as an artist - only the world, lit or unlit, as the world allows.
Annie Dillard
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There is a certain age at which a child looks at you in all earnestness and delivers a long, pleased speech in all the true inflections of spoken English, but with not one recognizable syllable.
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The dedicated life is worth living. You must give with your whole heart.
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Matters of taste are not, it turns out, moral issues.
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You can't test courage cautiously.
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There is no shortage of good days. It is good lives that are hard to come by.
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The writer studies literature, not the world. He is careful of what he reads, for that is what he will write.
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The notion of the infinite variety of detail and the multiplicity of forms is a pleasing one; in complexity are the fringes of beauty, and in variety are generosity and exuberance.
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I never met a man who was shaken by a field of identical blades of grass. An acre of poppies and a forest of spruce boggle no one's mind.
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Spend the afternoon. You can't take it with you.
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Appealing workplaces are to be avoided. One wants a room with no view, so imagination can meet memory in the dark.
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Every book has an intrinsic impossibility, which its writer discovers as soon as his first excitement dwindles.
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