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Back Quotes by Annie Dillard
- Nothing on earth is more gladdening than knowing we must roll up our sleeves and move back the boundaries of the humanly possible once more.
- But enough is enough. One turns at last even from glory itself with a sigh of relief. From the depths of mystery, and even from…
- You search, you break your heart, your back, your brain, and then-and only then-it is handed to you.
- The gaps are the thing. The gaps are the spirit's one home, the altitudes and latitudes so dazzlingly spare and clean that the spirit can…
- I noticed this process of waking, and predicted with terrifying logic that one of these years not far away I would be awake continuously and…
- It would seem that emotions are the curse, not death-emotions that appear to have developed upon a few freaks as a special curse from Malevolence.…
- I used to have a cat, an old fighting tom, who would jump through the open window by my bed in the middle of the…
- What have we been doing all these centuries but trying to call God back to the mountain, or, failing that, raise a peep out of…
- We are here to witness. There is nothing else to do with those mute materials we do not need. Until Larry teaches his stone to…
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