"No one escapes the wilderness on the way……" — Annie Dillard
"No one escapes the wilderness on the way to the promised land."
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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 Escapes Quotes
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Youth is to all the glad season of life; but often only by what it hopes, not by what it…
— Thomas Carlyle
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It is the best of all games for me. It frequently escapes from the pattern of sport and assumes the…
— Jimmy Cannon
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God tolerates even our stammering, and pardons our ignorance whenever something inadvertently escapes us - as, indeed, without this mercy…
— John Calvin
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No idea can succeed except at the expense of sacrifice; no one ever escapes without enduring strain from the struggle…
— Ernest Renan
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Man's characteristic privilege is that the bond he accepts is not physical but moral; that is, social. He is governed…
— Emile Durkheim
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What is divine escapes men's notice because of their incredulity.
— Heraclitus
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It comes down to whether you believe in seven miraculous escapes a week or one guardian angel.
— Robert Breault
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Who escapes a duty, avoids a gain.
— Theodore Parker
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I think the more stressful our times get, the more we look for fantasy escapes.
— Jeri Ryan
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I have often thought that there has rarely passed a life of which a judicious and faithful narrative would not…
— Samuel Johnson
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It is natural for every man uninstructed to murmur at his condition, because, in the general infelicity of life, he…
— Samuel Johnson
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The man who refuses to judge, who neither agrees nor disagrees, who declares that there are no absolutes and believes…
— Ayn Rand
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