"I am a fugitive and a vagabond, a…" — Annie Dillard
"I am a fugitive and a vagabond, a sojourner seeking signs."
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260 Quotes by Annie Dillard
Annie Dillard has 260 quotes on this site.
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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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More Fugitive Quotes
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Modernity is the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, which make up one half of art, the other being the eternal…
— Charles Baudelaire
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Some of the hardest-working and most productive people in this city are undocumented aliens. If you come here and you…
— Rudy Giuliani
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Art is as heavy as sorrow, as light as a breeze, as bright as an idea, as pretty as a…
— Barbara Kruger
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The sentence of the first murderer was pronounced by the Supreme Judge of the universe. Was it death? No, it…
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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I hear Democrats say, 'The Affordable Care Act is the law,' as though we're supposed to genuflect at that sunburst…
— George Will
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Behind every door on every ordinary street, in every hut in every ordinary village in this middling planet of a…
— Vikram Seth
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Thou wayfaring Jesus - a pilgrim and stranger, Exiled from heaven by love at Thy birth: Exiled again from Thy…
— Henry Van Dyke
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What is called matriarchy is simply moral anarchy, in which the mother alone remains fixed because all the fathers are…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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The gods are fugitive guests of literature.
— Roberto Calasso
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The only merit I have is to have painted directly from nature with the aim of conveying my impressions in…
— Claude Monet
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In his fifty-six years he was at times many things, including a fugitive, prisoner, rising politician, army leader, legal advocate,…
— Adrian Goldsworthy
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Youth -- nothing else worth having in the world...and I had youth, the transitory, the fugitive, now, completely and abundantly.…
— Richard Halliburton
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