Annie Dillard ✓

(1945) university teacher United States

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[Wikidata] American writer (born 1945)... | [Wikipedia] Annie Dillard is an American author, best known for her narrative prose in both fiction and nonfiction. She has published works of poetry, essays, prose, and literary criticism, as well as two novels and one memoir. Her 1974 book Pilgrim at Tinker Creek won the 1975 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfic

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• The notion of the infinite variety of detail and the multiplicity of forms is a pleasing one; in complexity are the fringes of beauty, and… Beauty
• There is no such thing as an artist - only the world, lit or unlit, as the world allows. Allows
• There is a certain age at which a child looks at you in all earnestness and delivers a long, pleased speech in all the true… Age
• People love pretty much the same things best. A writer looking for subjects inquires not after what he loves best, but after what he alone… All
• The writer studies literature, not the world. He is careful of what he reads, for that is what he will write. Careful
• The writer studies literature, not the world. Literature
• Much has been written about the life of the mind. Been
• Matters of taste are not, it turns out, moral issues. Issues
• Eskimo: If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell? Priest: No, not if you did not know. Eskimo: Then… Eskimo
• The dedicated life is the life worth living. Dedicated

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