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Annie Dillard
1945 -

Annie Dillard (born April 30, 1945) is an American author, best known for her narrative prose in both fiction and non-fiction. She has published works of poetry, essays, prose, and literary criticism, as well as two novels and one memoir. Her 1974 work Pilgrim at Tinker Creek won the 1975 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction. Dillard taught for 21 years in the English department of Wesleyan University, in Middletown, Connecticut.

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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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I woke at intervals until . . . the intervals of waking tipped the scales, and I was more often awake than not.

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The life of sensation is the life of greed; it requires more and more. The life of the spirit requires less and less.
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We wake, if we ever wake at all, to mystery, rumors of death, beauty, violence.

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