"Our life seems cursed to be a wiggle……" — Annie Dillard
"Our life seems cursed to be a wiggle merely, and a wandering without end."
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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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That said, the question remains: how to strike the balance between free speech and mutual respect in this mixed-up world,…
— Timothy Garton Ash
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Cursed is the man who dies, but the evil done by him survives.
— Abu Bakr
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Daily, constantly, we choose by our desires, our thoughts, and our actions whether we want to be blessed or cursed,…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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The earth was cursed for Adam's sake. Work is our blessing, not our doom. God has a work to do,…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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Curiosity, n. An objectionable quality of the female mind. The desire to know whether or not a woman is cursed…
— Ambrose Bierce
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Happy the country that lives on nothing but its wits; cursed be the one that thinks it can get rich…
— Bono
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I deliver very traditionally, and people aren't threatened. I think if I cursed or seemed wilder, I couldn't get away…
— Elayne Boosler
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In every grave on earth's green sward is a tiny seed of the resurrection life of Jesus Christ, and that…
— Unknown Author
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We can safely make one prophecy: whatever the outcome of this war, the British Empire is at an end. It…
— Adolf Hitler
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Woe to the suicides! I believe that there can be none more miserable than they. Oh, there are some who…
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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That's a miserable and cursed word, to say I had, when what I have is nothing.
— Plautus
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It may be a blessing in disguise...Something happened a long time ago in Haiti, and people might not want to…
— Pat Robertson
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