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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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Our life is a faint tracing on the surface of mystery, like the idle curved tunnels of leaf miners on the face…
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In Britain, where the social safety net is more like a social swaddling cloth, crime rates other than murder are significantly higher…
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And the angel said unto them, 'Fear not! For, behold, I bring you tidings of great joy, Which shall be to all…
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And this will be a sign for you: you will find a baby wrapped in swaddling cloths and lying in a manger.…
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The questioning spirit is the rebellious spirit. A rebellion isalways either a cloak to hide a prince, or the swaddling wrapper of…
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