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End Quotes by Annie Dillard
- When you write, you lay out a line of words. The line of words is a miner's pick, a wood carver's gouge, a surgeon's probe.…
- Our life seems cursed to be a wiggle merely, and a wandering without end.
- Time is the continuous loop, the snakeskin with scales endlessly overlapping without beginning or end, or time is an ascending spiral if you will, like…
- 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…
- You can, in short, lead the life of the mind, which is, despite some appalling frustrations, the happiest life on earth. And one day, in…
- Geography is the key, the crucial accident of birth. A piece of protein could be a snail, a sea lion, or a systems analyst, but…
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