Years Quotes by Annie Dillard

13 Years quotes by Annie Dillard

Dillard’s keen eye for detail turns ordinary moments into something luminous. This brief set of thirteen quotes invites readers to pause and consider how years subtly shape the world around us.

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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…

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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…

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I cannot imagine a sorrier pursuit than struggling for years to write a book that attempts to appeal to people who do…

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About five years ago I saw a mockingbird make a straight vertical descent from the roof gutter of a four-story building. It…

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I had good innings, as the British say. I wrote for 38 years at the top of my form, and I wanted…

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At night I read and write, and things I have never understood become clear; I reap the harvest of the rest of…

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Out of a human population on earth of four and a half billion, perhaps twenty people can write a book in a…

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Who and of what import were the men whose bones bulk the Great Wall, the thirty million Mao starved, or the thirty…

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When you write, you lay out a line of words. The line of words is a miner's pick, a wood carver's gouge,…

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There is always the temptation in life to diddle around making itsy-bitsy friends and meals and journeys for years on end. It…

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I sip my coffee. I look at the mountain, which is still doing its tricks, as you look at a still-beautiful face…

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She is nine, beloved, as open-faced as the sky and as self-contained. I have watched her grow. As recently as three or…

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When I was six or seven years old, growing up in Pittsburgh, I used to take a precious penny of my own…

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“...The mockingbird took a single step into the air and dropped. His wings were still folded against his sides as though he were singing…

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“Father had stretched out his long legs and was tilting back in his chair. Mother sat with her knees crossed, in blue slacks, smoking…

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I am a frayed and nibbled survivor in a fallen world, and I am getting along. I am aging and eaten and have done…

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It should surprise no one that the life of the writer - such as it is - is colorless to the point of sensory…

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It is madness to wear ladies' straw hats and velvet hats to church; we should all be wearing crash helmets. Ushers should issue life…

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The sense impressions of one-celled animals are not edited for the brain. This is philosophically interesting in a rather mournful way, since it means…

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