Best Annie Dillard Thoughts
- The silence is all there is. It is the alpha and the omega, it is God's brooding over the face of the waters; it is… Address
- The mind wants to live forever, or to learn a very good reason why not. The mind wants the world to return its love, or… Ambitious
- There is always the temptation in life to diddle around making itsy-bitsy friends and meals and journeys for years on end. It is all so… All
- Books swept me away, this way and that, one after the other; I made endless vows according to their lights for I believed them. According
- What a hideout: Holiness lies spread and borne over the surface of time and stuff like color. Borne
- People who read are not too lazy to turn on the television; they prefer books. Book
- What do I make of all this texture? What does it mean about the kind of world in which I have been set down? The… All
- Many writers do little else but sit in small rooms recalling the real world. Little
- Theirs is the mystery of continuous creation and all that providence implies: the uncertainty of vision, the horror of the fixed, the dissolution of the… All
- Like any child, I slid into myself perfectly fitted, as a diver meets her reflection in a pool. Her fingertips enter the fingertips on the… Any
- why did I have to keep learning this same thing over and over? Funny
- Skin was earth; it was soil. I could see, even on my own skin, the joined trapezoids of dust specks God had wetted and stuck… Adam
- You can't test courage cautiously, so I ran hard and waved my arms hard, happy. Arms
- Having chosen this foolishness, I was a free being. How could the world ever stop me, how could I betray myself, if I was not… Afraid
- Noticing and remembering everything would trap bright scenes to light and fill the blank and darkening past which was already piling up behind me. The… Air
- I had been chipping at the world idly, and had by accident uncovered vast and labyrinthine further worlds within it. Accident
- If even rock was interesting, if even this ugliness was worth whole shelves at the library, required sophisticated tools to study, and inspired grown men… Crack
- So the Midwest nourishes us [...] and presents us with the spectacle of a land and a people completed and certain. And so we run… All
- There were no formerly heroic times, and there was no formerly pure generation. There is no one here but us chickens, and so it has… Been
- Out of a human population on earth of four and a half billion, perhaps twenty people can write a book in a year. Some people… Arc
- I do not so much write a book as sit up with it, as a dying friend. I hold its hand and hope it will… Better
- He is careful of what he reads, for that is what he will write. He is careful of what he learns, for that is what… Careful
- Admire the world for never ending on you -- as you would an opponent, without taking your eyes away from him, or walking away. Admire
- We are here to witness the creation and to abet it. Abet
- A schedule defends from chaos and whim. A net for catching days. Catching
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