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Annie Dillard

As soon as beauty is sought not from religion and love, but for pleasure, it degrades the seeker.

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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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Every book has an intrinsic impossibility, which its writer discovers as soon as his first excitement dwindles.

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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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As a life's work, I would remember everything - everything, against loss. I would go through life like a plankton net.

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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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Aim for the chopping block. If you aim for the wood, you will have nothing. Aim past the wood, aim through the wood; aim for the chopping block.

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Your work is to keep cranking the flywheel that turns the gears that spin the belt in the engine of belief that keeps you and your desk in midair.

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Eskimo: ""If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell?"" Priest: ""No, not if you did not know."" Eskimo: ""Then why did you tell me?""

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People love pretty much the same things best. A writer looking for subject inquires not after what he loves best, but after what he alone loves at all.

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