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Spread Quotes by Annie Dillard
- Hone and spread your spirit till you yourself are a sail, whetted, translucent, broadside to the merest puff.
- The morning woods were utterly new. A strong yellow light pooled beneath the trees; my shadow appeared and vanished on the path, since a third…
- 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,…
- Crystals grew inside rock like arithmetic flowers. They lengthened and spread, added plane to plane in an awed and perfect obedience to an absolute geometry…
- What a hideout: Holiness lies spread and borne over the surface of time and stuff like color.
- I cannot cause light; the most I can do is try to put myself in the path of its beam. It is possible, in deep…
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