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Time Quotes by Annie Dillard
- Experiencing the present purely is being empty and hollow; you catch grace as a man fills his cup under a waterfall.
- You empty yourself and wait, listening. After a time you hear it: There is nothing there...You feel the world's word as a tension, a hum,…
- When you write, you lay out a line of words. The line of words is a miner's pick, a wood carver's gouge, a surgeon's probe.…
- I would like to live. . . open to time and death painlessly, noticing everything, remembering nothing, choosing the given with a fierce and pointed…
- Why are we reading if not in hope that the writer will magnify and dramatize our days, will illuminate and inspire us with wisdom, courage,…
- 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,…
- Time is the continuous loop, the snakeskin with scales endlessly overlapping without beginning or end, or time is an ascending spiral if you will, like…
- You are wrong if you think that you can in any way take the vision and tame it... The vision is not so much destroyed,…
- Hasidism has a tradition that one of man's purposes is to assist God in the work of redemption by "hallowing" the things of creation. By…
- How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.
- A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is a scaffolding on which a worker can stand and…
- Spend the afternoon. You can't take it with you.
- The surest sign of age is loneliness.
- You are wrong if you think that you can in any way take the vision and tame it to the page. The page is jealous…
- I'm a housewife: I spend far more time on housework than anything else.
- Write as if you were dying. At the same time, assume you write for an audience consisting solely of terminal patients. That is, after all,…
- 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…
- No, the point is not only does time fly and do we die, but that in these reckless conditions we live at all, and are…
- It was less like seeing than like being for the first time seen, knocked breathless by a powerful glance.
- What a hideout: Holiness lies spread and borne over the surface of time and stuff like color.
- There is no shortage of good days. It is good lives that are hard to come by. A life of good days lived in the…
- Knowing you are alive is watching on every side your generation's short time falling away as fast as rivers drop through air, and feeling it…
- One of the few things I know about writing is this: Spend it all, shoot it, play it, lose it, all, right away, every time.…
- She is nine, beloved, as open-faced as the sky and as self-contained. I have watched her grow. As recently as three or four years ago,…
- Love so sprang at her, she honestly thought no one had ever looked into it. Where was it in literature? Someone would have written something.…
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