"As a life's work, I would remember everything……" — Annie Dillard
"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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260 Quotes by Annie Dillard
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If we were to judge nature by common sense or likelihood, we wouldn't believe the world existed.
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Experiencing the present purely is being empty and hollow; you catch grace as a man fills his cup under a…
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We are here to witness the creation and to abet it. We are here to notice each thing so each…
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You empty yourself and wait, listening. After a time you hear it: There is nothing there...You feel the world's word…
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The way we live our days, is the way we live our lives.
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I wake expectant, hoping to see a new thing.
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I think the dying pray at the last not "please," but "thank you," as a guest thanks his host at…
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I think that the dying pray at the last not please but thank you, as a guest thanks his host…
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Learn punctuation; it is your little drum set, one of the few tools oyu have to signal the reader where…
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Why are we reading, if not in hope of beauty laid bare, life heightened and its deepest mystery probed?
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The more you read, the more you will write. The better the stuff you read, the better the stuff you…
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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…
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