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Over Quotes by Annie Dillard
- Writers serve as the memory of a people. They chew over our public past.
- We live in all we seek. The hidden shows up in too-plain sight. It lives captive on the face of the obvious - the people,…
- I woke in bits, like all children, piecemeal over the years. I discovered myself and the world, and forgot them, and discovered them again.
- We sleep to time's hurdy-gurdy; we wake, if ever we wake, to the silence of God. And then, when we wake to the deep shores…
- The silence is all there is. It is the alpha and the omega, it is God's brooding over the face of the waters; it is…
- The mind wants to live forever, or to learn a very good reason why not. The mind wants the world to return its love, or…
- What a hideout: Holiness lies spread and borne over the surface of time and stuff like color.
- why did I have to keep learning this same thing over and over?
- Out of a human population on earth of four and a half billion, perhaps twenty people can write a book in a year. Some people…
- It's about waking up. A child wakes up over and over again, and notices that she's living. She dreams along, loving the exuberant life of…
- We have not yet encountered any god who is as merciful as a man who flicks a beetle over on its feet.
- A work in progress quickly becomes feral. It reverts to a wild state overnight. It is barely domesticated, a mustang on which you one day…
- The sea pronounces something, over and over, in a hoarse whisper; I cannot quite make it out.
- The mountains are great stone bells; they clang together like nuns. Who shushed the stars? There are a thousand million galaxies easily seen in the…
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