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First Quotes by Annie Dillard
- Every book has an intrinsic impossibility, which its writer discovers as soon as his first excitement dwindles.
- When I was six or seven years old, growing up in Pittsburgh, I used to take a precious penny of my own and hide it…
- When I first read the words 'introvert' and 'extrovert' when I was 10, I thought I was both.
- 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.…
- Last forever!' Who hasn't prayed that prayer? You were lucky to get it in the first place. The present is a freely given canvas. That…
- It was less like seeing than like being for the first time seen, knocked breathless by a powerful glance.
- Nature is, above all, profligate. Don't believe them when they tell you how economical and thrifty nature is, whose leaves return to the soil. Wouldn't…
- For writing a first draft requires from the writer a peculiar internal state which ordinary life does not induce. ... how to set yourself spinning?
- After the one extravagant gesture of creation in the first place, the universe has continued to deal exclusively in extravagances, flinging intricacies and colossi down…
- I cannot imagine a sorrier pursuit than struggling for years to write a book that attempts to appeal to people who do not read in…
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- The first time Haiti had free and fair democratic elections was 1990, when I was elected. — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- I am lucky, I'm the first to admit that. — J. J. Abrams
- Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others. — Aristotle
- For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first. — Aristotle
- He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled. — Aristotle
- In making a speech one must study three points: first, the means of producing persuasion; second, the language; third the proper arrangement… — Aristotle
- Retired is being tired twice, I've thought, first tired of working, then tired of not. — Richard Armour
- The first time that you escape from home or the small town that you live in - there's a reason a small… — Billie Joe Armstrong
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- Ironically, the first thing that appealed to me about Islam was its pluralism. The fact that the Koran praises all the great… — Karen Armstrong