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Off Quotes by Annie Dillard
- If we listened to our intellect, we’d never have a love affair... or go into business. You’ve got to jump off cliffs and build your…
- Tonight I walked around the pond scaring frogs; a couple of them jumped off, going, in effect, eek, and most grunted, and the pond was…
- 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…
- Nature's silence is its one remark, and every flake of world is a chip off that old mute and immutable block.
- When you open a book,†the sentimental library posters said, “anything can happen.†This was so. A book of fiction was a bomb. It was…
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