"Why are we reading if not in hope……" — Annie Dillard
"Why are we reading if not in hope that the writer will magnify and dramatize our days, will illuminate and inspire us with wisdom, courage, and the possibility of meaningfulness, and will press upon our minds the deepest mysteries, so that we may feel again their majesty and power? What do we ever know that is higher than that power which, from time to time, seizes our lives, and reveals us startlingly to ourselves as creatures set down here bewildered?"
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260 Quotes by Annie Dillard
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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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Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
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The actual tragedies of life bear no relation to one's preconceived ideas. In the event, one is always bewildered by…
— Jean Cocteau
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It was five years since I'd won a race, so I was a bit bewildered.
— Damon Hill
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No, I never did get lost, but I was bewildered for three days once.
— Daniel Boone
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Hence the experienced soldier, once in motion, is never bewildered; once he has broken camp, he is never at a…
— Sun Tzu
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When anxious, uneasy and bad thoughts come, I go to the sea, and the sea drowns them out with its…
— Rainer Maria Rilke
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At least I know I'm bewildered about the really fundamental and important facts of the universe.
— Terry Pratchett
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God is able to accomplish, provide, help, save, keep, subdue... He is able to do what you can't. He already…
— Max Lucado
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Do not be bewildered by the surfaces: in the depths all becomes law.
— Rainer Maria Rilke
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A library is a good place to go when you feel unhappy, for there, in a book, you may find…
— Elwyn Brooks White
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The rule of law does not do away with the unequal distribution of wealth and power, but reinforces that inequality…
— Howard Zinn
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I am bewildered at the length to which people will go to portray me so negatively,
— Michael Jackson
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