"You are wrong if you think that you……" — Annie Dillard
"You are wrong if you think that you can in any way take the vision and tame it to the page. The page is jealous and tyrannical; the page is made of time and matter; the page always wins."
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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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Soccer is a game for 22 people that run around, play the ball, and one referee who makes a slew…
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Without conscious and deliberate effort, inertia always wins
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I was excited about The Dark Knight until Heath Ledger gave away the ending, Batman always wins.
— Zach Braff
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When Garri Kasparov wrestles with his conscience, he always wins. It's what he's best at.
— Dominic Lawson
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The art always wins. Anything can happen to me, but the art will stay.
— Ai Weiwei
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Find where God is and get behind what He’s doing. He always wins…
— John Wimber
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Eagleton has spent his life inside two mental boxes, Catholicism and Marxism, of both of which he is a severe…
— A.C. Grayling
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Early in life I learned, just through observation, that right always wins out over wrong. If a person has good…
— Monte Irvin
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A man sometimes wins an argument, but a woman always wins a silence.
— Robert Breault
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When something's got to give, family always wins. I couldn't live with myself if it was the other way.
— Tracy Pollan
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Ethernet always wins.
— Andy Bechtolsheim
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I fight authority and authority always wins.
— John Mellencamp
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