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Books Quotes by Annie Dillard
- Every book has an intrinsic impossibility, which its writer discovers as soon as his first excitement dwindles.
- All my books started out as extravagant and ended up pure and plain.
- 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…
- Books swept me away, this way and that, one after the other; I made endless vows according to their lights for I believed them.
- People who read are not too lazy to turn on the television; they prefer books.
- She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live.
- When you open a book,” the sentimental library posters said, “anything can happen.” This was so. A book of fiction was a bomb. It was…
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