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Annie Dillard has 265 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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If we were to judge nature by common sense or likelihood, we wouldn't believe the world existed.
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Experiencing the present purely is being empty and hollow; you catch grace as a man fills his cup under a waterfall.
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We are here to witness the creation and to abet it. We are here to notice each thing so each thing gets…
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You empty yourself and wait, listening. After a time you hear it: There is nothing there...You feel the world's word as a…
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The way we live our days, is the way we live our lives.
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I wake expectant, hoping to see a new thing.
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I think the dying pray at the last not "please," but "thank you," as a guest thanks his host at the door.
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I think that the dying pray at the last not please but thank you, as a guest thanks his host at the…
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Learn punctuation; it is your little drum set, one of the few tools oyu have to signal the reader where the beats…
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Why are we reading, if not in hope of beauty laid bare, life heightened and its deepest mystery probed?
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The more you read, the more you will write. The better the stuff you read, the better the stuff you will write.
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When you write, you lay out a line of words. The line of words is a miner's pick, a wood carver's gouge,…
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I raised my hands, trying to shush her. "Don't shush me," she said, eyes blazing. "I hate being shushed.
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