"The dear, stupid body is as easily satisfied…" — Annie Dillard

"The dear, stupid body is as easily satisfied as a spaniel."

— Annie Dillard

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260 Quotes by Annie Dillard

Annie Dillard has 260 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

If we were to judge nature by common sense or likelihood, we wouldn't believe the world existed.
Experiencing the present purely is being empty and hollow; you catch grace as a man fills his cup under a…
We are here to witness the creation and to abet it. We are here to notice each thing so each…
You empty yourself and wait, listening. After a time you hear it: There is nothing there...You feel the world's word…
The way we live our days, is the way we live our lives.
I wake expectant, hoping to see a new thing.
I think the dying pray at the last not "please," but "thank you," as a guest thanks his host at…
I think that the dying pray at the last not please but thank you, as a guest thanks his host…
Learn punctuation; it is your little drum set, one of the few tools oyu have to signal the reader where…
Why are we reading, if not in hope of beauty laid bare, life heightened and its deepest mystery probed?
The more you read, the more you will write. The better the stuff you read, the better the stuff you…
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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Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what is given by the senses. — Hannah Arendt
Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. — Aristotle
Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. — Aristotle
We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure… — Aristotle
If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the… — M H Abrams
Whatever man uses without the fear of God, whatever he applies to the mere gratifying of his flesh, cannot fail… — Johann Arndt
Every one knows, that the mind will not be kept from contemplating what it loves in the midst of crowds… — Mary Astell
The last four or five hundred years of European contact with Africa produced a body of literature that presented Africa… — Chinua Achebe
Perception is reality. — Lee Atwater
I wish I had eight pairs of hands, and another body to shoot the specimens. — John James Audubon
If I can procure three hundred good substantial names of persons, or bodies, or institutions, I cannot fail to do… — John James Audubon
Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All… — Saint Augustine

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