"Our life is a faint tracing on the……" — Annie Dillard
"Our life is a faint tracing on the surface of mystery, like the idle, curved tunnels of leaf miners on the face of a leaf"
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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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Many statements about God are confidently made by theologians on grounds that today at least sound specious. Thomas Aquinas claimed…
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Everything was curved to fit the walls: the stove, the sink and the cupboards, and all of it had been…
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The great and amorous sky curved over the earth, and lay upon her as a pure lover. The rain, the…
— Aeschylus
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When there was room on the ledge outside of the pots and boxes for a cat, the cat was there-…
— Mark Twain
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Nature creates curved lines while humans create straight lines.
— Hideki Yukawa
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Men of science, osteologists And surgeons, beat some poets, in respect For nature,-count nought common or unclean, Spend raptures upon…
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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I thought following a straight road would lead me right to my destination. Like the road would just take me…
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There was a blithe certainty that came from first comprehending the full Einstein field equations, arabesques of Greek letters clinging…
— Gregory Benford
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For the first time in my life I saw the horizon as a curved line. It was accentuated by a…
— Unknown Author
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Most hierarchies are nowadays so cumbered with rules and traditions, and so bound in by public laws, that even high…
— Laurence J. Peter
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The form of my painting is the content. My work is made of single or multiple panels: rectangle, curved, or…
— Ellsworth Kelly
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The most straight seems curved.
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