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Interesting Quotes by Annie Dillard
- Why do you never find anything written about that idiosyncratic thought you advert to, about your fascination with something no one else understands? Because it…
- 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…
- The sense impressions of one-celled animals are not edited for the brain. This is philosophically interesting in a rather mournful way, since it means that…
- If even rock was interesting, if even this ugliness was worth whole shelves at the library, required sophisticated tools to study, and inspired grown men…
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