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Made 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…
- Divinity is not playful. The universe was not made in jest but in solemn incomprehensibl e earnest. By a power that is unfathomably secret, and…
- The universe is illusion merely, not one speck of it real, and we are not only its victims, falling always into or smashed by a…
- The universe was not made in jest but in solemn incomprehensible earnest.
- You are wrong if you think that you can in any way take the vision and tame it to the page. The page is jealous…
- Our family was on the lunatic fringe. My mother was always completely irrepressible. My father made crowd noises into a microphone.
- Books swept me away, this way and that, one after the other; I made endless vows according to their lights for I believed them.
- 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…
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