"I think it would be well, and proper,……" — Annie Dillard
"I think it would be well, and proper, and obedient, and pure, to grasp your one necessity and not let it go, to dangle from it limp wherever it takes you."
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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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Was Mrs. Wilcox one of the unsatisfactory people- there are many of them- who dangle intimacy and then withdraw it?…
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Whatever you have to say, leave The roots on, let them Dangle And the dirt Just to make clear Where…
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Girls don’t fight fair. They pull your hair and gauge you and pinch you; then they run off gasping to…
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Unless you are here: this garden refuses to exist. Pink dragonflies fall from the air and become scorpions scratching blood…
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Prayer or not, I want to believe that, despite all evidence to the contrary, it is possible for anyone to…
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Love was also an easy word, used carelessly. Felons and creeps could offer it coated in sugar, and users could…
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That face. That body. And you know he’s packing. Look at the angle on that dangle.
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He keeps this up, he's bound to be caught, she thought. And this time they'll dangle him for certain.
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Okay. Look, why don't you take care of the half a million things you've been letting dangle in Roarke's Empire…
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