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Annie Dillard has 265 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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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 waterfall.
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We are here to witness the creation and to abet it. We are here to notice each thing so each thing gets…
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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 as a…
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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 the door.
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I think that the dying pray at the last not please but thank you, as a guest thanks his host at the…
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Learn punctuation; it is your little drum set, one of the few tools oyu have to signal the reader where the beats…
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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 will write.
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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 carver's gouge,…
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Anybody who knows me knows I would never read a comic book. And I certainly would never read anything written by Kevin…
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Why do you never find anything written about that idiosyncratic thought you advert to, about your fascination with something no one else…
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If the American Revolution had produced nothing but the Declaration of Independence, it would have been worth while. . . . The…
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It is fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple; one must be woman-manly or man-womanly. It is fatal for…
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But I don't think there has ever been anything written on the nature of violent man as deep and as thorough as…
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I think there's a general misconception that anything written quickly lacks quality, and I don't believe that.
— Michael Connelly
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Was there ever yet anything written by mere man that was wished longer by its readers, excepting Don Quixote, Robinson Crusoe, and…
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Anyway, why would you trust anything written down? She certainly didn't trust "Mothers of Borogravia!" and that was from the government. And…
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In my first year, when I was driving in runs, winning games and making headlines, there was an old man who came…
— Willie McCovey
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Many girls say tht boys are stone hearted but anything written on stone will be forever
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