Were the earth smooth our brains would be smooth as well we would wake blink walk two steps to get the whole picture and lapse into a dreamless sleep.
Annie Dillard
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If she had known how much her first halfinch beginning to let go would take and how long her noticing and renouncing owning and her turning her habits and beginning the slimmest selfmastery whose end was nowhere in sight would she have begun
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You are wrong if you think that you can in any way take the vision and tame it to the page. The page is jealous and tyrannical; the page is made of time and matter; the page always wins.
- Annie Dillard