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Want Quotes by Annie Dillard
- We still and always want waking.
- The creatures I seek do not want to be seen.
- The mind wants the world to return its love, or its awareness; the mind wants to know all the world, and all eternity, and God.
- I worked so hard all my life, and all I want to do now is read.
- I like to be aware of a book as a piece of writing, and aware of its structure as a product of mind, and yet…
- Appealing workplaces are to be avoided. One wants a room with no view, so imagination can meet memory in the dark.
- I feel as though I stand at the foot of an infinitely high staircase, down which some exuberant spirit is flinging tennis ball after tennis…
- The mind wants to live forever, or to learn a very good reason why not. The mind wants the world to return its love, or…
- You do not have to sit outside in the dark. If, however, you want to look at the stars, you will find that darkness is…
- I wake up thinking: What am I reading? What will I read next? I'm terrified that I'll run out, that I will read through all…
- Silence is not our heritage but our destiny; we live where we want to live.
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