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Between Quotes by Annie Dillard
- 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…
- Today is one of those excellent January partly cloudies in which light chooses an unexpected part of the landscape to trick out in gilt, and…
- I like to be aware of a book as a piece of writing, and aware of its structure as a product of mind, and yet…
- I saw in a blue haze all the world poured flat and pale between the mountains
- Wherever we go, there seems to be only one business at hand - that of finding workable compromises between the sublimity of our ideas and…
- I am sorry I ran from you. I am still running, running from that knowledge, that eye, that love from which there is no refuge.…
- 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…
- The mountains are great stone bells; they clang together like nuns. Who shushed the stars? There are a thousand million galaxies easily seen in the…
- I alternate between thinking of the planet as home - dear and familiar stone hearth and garden - and as a hard land of exile…
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- I cannot help but notice that there is no problem between us that cannot be solved by your departure. — Mark Twain
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- You have to steer a course between not appalling people, but at the same time not misleading them. — David Attenborough
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