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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 wasn't too good at vaulting, and I didn't have running speed and jumping power.
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I've done archery for about six weeks, and rock climbing, tree climbing - and combat, running and vaulting. But also yoga and…
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Bel canto is to opera what pole-vaulting is to ballet.
— Ned Rorem
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The morning woods were utterly new. A strong yellow light pooled beneath the trees; my shadow appeared and vanished on the path,…
— Annie Dillard
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Vaulting ambition, which o'erleaps itself And falls on the other side
— William Shakespeare
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It's a huge Carthusian monastery, stuck down between rocks and sea, where you may imagine me, without white gloves or hair curling,…
— Frederic Chopin
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There's so much more important parts other than pole vaulting.
— Jenn Suhr
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It's not like I've been vaulting my whole life. I haven't. So my body hasn't taken that physical beating. I'm still on…
— Jenn Suhr
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Pole vaulting is an event of high and lows.
— Jenn Suhr
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I like underwater pole vaulting, because you can have perfect form without the risk.
— Katie Hoff
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I think good-looking people seldom make good television. And American television studios almost concede before they start: 'Well, it won't be good,…
— Hugh Laurie
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What is that feeling when you're driving away from people and they recede on the plain till you see their specks dispersing?…
— Jack Kerouac
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