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From Quotes by Annie Dillard
- I think that the dying pray at the last not please but thank you, as a guest thanks his host at the door. Falling from…
- 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…
- Peeping through my keyhold I see within the range of only about 30 percent of the light that comes from the sun; the rest is…
- 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…
- Why are we reading if not in hope that the writer will magnify and dramatize our days, will illuminate and inspire us with wisdom, courage,…
- Doing something does not require discipline. It creates its own discipline - with a little help from caffeine.
- Write about winter in the summer. Describe Norway as Ibsen did, from a desk in Italy; describe Dublin as James Joyce did, from a desk…
- When I walk with a camera, I walk from shot to shot, reading the light on a calibrated meter. When I walk without a camera,…
- A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is a scaffolding on which a worker can stand and…
- As soon as beauty is sought not from religion and love, but for pleasure, it degrades the seeker.
- It is ironic that the one thing that all religions recognize as separating us from our creator, our very self-consciousness, is also the one thing…
- The sensation of writing a book is the sensation of spinning, blinded by love and daring. It is the sensation of a stunt pilot's turning…
- I think it would be well, and proper, and obedient, and pure, to grasp your one necessity and not let it go, to dangle from…
- 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.…
- Like any child, I slid into myself perfectly fitted, as a diver meets her reflection in a pool. Her fingertips enter the fingertips on the…
- Skin was earth; it was soil. I could see, even on my own skin, the joined trapezoids of dust specks God had wetted and stuck…
- Admire the world for never ending on you -- as you would an opponent, without taking your eyes away from him, or walking away.
- A schedule defends from chaos and whim. A net for catching days.
- For writing a first draft requires from the writer a peculiar internal state which ordinary life does not induce. ... how to set yourself spinning?
- I sip my coffee. I look at the mountain, which is still doing its tricks, as you look at a still-beautiful face belonging to a…
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