"We are here to abet creation and to……" — Annie Dillard
"We are here to abet creation and to witness to it, to notice each other's beautiful face and complex nature so that creation need not play to an empty house."
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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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The root cause of poverty is social injustice and the bad government that abets it
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We are here to witness the creation and to abet it. We are here to notice each thing so each…
— Annie Dillard
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In view of the fourteen incidents of sabotage and infiltration perpetrated in the past month alone, Israel may have no…
— Levi Eshkol
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To be well used, creatures and places must be used sympathetically, just as they must be known sympathetically to be…
— Wendell Berry
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Casual reliance on unnamed sources...corrodes our credibility and, in cases that are rare but not rare enough, may abet journalistic…
— Bill Keller
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To salvage a society, it is necessary to aid, abet, raise and increase that state of mind. If you were…
— L. Ron Hubbard
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At first I wasn't sure that I had the talent, but I did know I had a fear of failure,…
— Gordon Parks
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If we offer too much silent assent about mysticism and superstition - even when it seems to be doing a…
— Carl Sagan
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The widespread availability of information is the only basis for effective day-to-day problem solving, which abets continuous improvement programs.
— Tom Peters
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I don't judge people. I don't even judge people on 'The Voice.' I'm a coach. I'm there for constructive criticism…
— Cee Lo Green
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No state should be allowed to profess partnership with the global coalition against terror, while continuing to aid, abet and…
— Atal Bihari Vajpayee
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We are here to witness the creation and to abet it.
— Annie Dillard
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