"Nothing moves a woman so deeply as the……" — Annie Dillard
"Nothing moves a woman so deeply as the boyhood of the man she loves."
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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 Boyhood Quotes
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one of 67 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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My boyhood life in New York City has impressed me with the popular ignorance and also with the great need…
— Cleveland Abbe
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I love my mother, but there has been, ever since my boyhood, a sort of coldness of intercourse between us,…
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
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I've had the boyhood thing of being Elvis. Now I want to be with my best friend and my best…
— John Lennon
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The dog of your boyhood teaches you a great deal about friendship, and love, and death: Old Skip was my…
— Willie Morris
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Such is the depth of the Christian Scriptures, that even if I were attempting to study them and nothing else…
— Richard Baxter
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Boyhood is a most complex and incomprehensible thing. Even when one has been through it, one does not understand what…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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That toil of growing up; The ignominy of boyhood; the distress Of boyhood changing into man; The unfinished man and…
— William Butler Yeats
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In my own experience I have found that the most extravagant dreams of boyhood have not surpassed the great experience…
— Jim Elliot
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I have watched the river and the sea for a lifetime. I have seen rivers rob soil from the roots…
— Keri Hulme
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Ever since boyhood I've made a religion of keeping in shape by regular, conscientious exercise.
— Gene Tunney
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For my part, I do not much believe in the predilections of boyhood.
— James Payn
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In talking with scholars, I observe that they lost on ruder companions those years of boyhood which alone could give…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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