"Time is the continuous loop, the snakeskin with……" — Annie Dillard
"Time is the continuous loop, the snakeskin with scales endlessly overlapping without beginning or end, or time is an ascending spiral if you will, like a child's toy Slinky."
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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 Ascending Quotes
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To me there never has been a higher source of honour or distinction than that connected with advances in science.…
— Humphry Davy
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Without deductive logic science would be entirely useless. It is merely a barren game to ascend from the particular to…
— Alfred North Whitehead
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The gratitude ascending from man to God is the supreme transaction between heaven and earth.
— Albert Schweitzer
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Remember that in ascending to the Father You could not leave us orphans; And in making yourself a prisoner on…
— Therese of Lisieux
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Progress has not followed a straight ascending line, but a spiral with rhythms of progress and retrogression, of evolution and…
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Whoever considers the Attributes of Allaah to be like the attributes of the creation, such that the Istawaa of Allaah…
— Ibn Taymiyyah
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Being or nothing, that is the question. Ascending, descending, coming, going, a man does so much that in the end…
— Raymond Queneau
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NOTORIETY, n. The fame of one's competitor for public honors. The kind of renown most accessible and acceptable to mediocrity.…
— Ambrose Bierce
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Quiet solitude is a nutritional need of the ascending body.
— Doreen Virtue
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Let us labor for that larger comprehension of truth, and that more thorough repudiation of error, which shall make the…
— Horace Mann
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It is in the union of the Ascending and the Descending currents that harmony is found, and not in any…
— Ken Wilber
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An epiphany enables you to sense creation not as something completed, but as constantly becoming, evolving, ascending. This transports you…
— Abraham Isaac Kook
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