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Much Quotes by Annie Dillard
- Unfortunately, nature is very much a now-you-see-it, now-you-don't affair. A fish flashes, then dissolves in the water before my eyes like so much salt. Deer…
- As a thinker I keep discovering that beauty itself is as much a fact, and a mystery...I consider nature's facts -- its beautiful and grotesque…
- A shepherd on a hilltop who looks at a mess of stars and thinks, ‘There’s a hunter, a plow, a fish,’ is making mental connections…
- Even if things are as bad as they could possible be, and as meaningless, then matters of truth are themselves indifferent; we may as well…
- You are wrong if you think that you can in any way take the vision and tame it... The vision is not so much destroyed,…
- I do not so much write a book as sit up with it, as a dying friend. I hold its hand and hope it will…
- It has always been a happy thought to me that the creek runs on all night, new every minute, whether I wish it or know…
- People love pretty much the same things best. A writer looking for subjects inquires not after what he loves best, but after what he alone…
- Much has been written about the life of the mind.
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