Spend the afternoon. You can't take it with you.

Quote by Annie Dillard

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People love pretty much the same things best. A writer looking for subject inquires not...

People love pretty much the same things best. A writer looking for subject inquires not...

The dedicated life is worth living. You must give with your whole heart.

The dedicated life is worth living. You must give with your whole heart.

Every book has an intrinsic impossibility, which its writer discovers as soon as his first...

Every book has an intrinsic impossibility, which its writer discovers as soon as his first...

Eskimo: If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell?...

Eskimo: If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell?...

Your work is to keep cranking the flywheel that turns the gears that spin the...

Your work is to keep cranking the flywheel that turns the gears that spin the...

As soon as beauty is sought not from religion and love, but for pleasure, it...

As soon as beauty is sought not from religion and love, but for pleasure, it...

Cruelty is a mystery and a waste of pain

Cruelty is a mystery and a waste of pain

The surest sign of age is loneliness.

The surest sign of age is loneliness.

The painter... does not fit the paints to the world. He most certainly does not...

The painter... does not fit the paints to the world. He most certainly does not...

There is a muscular energy in sunlight corresponding to the spiritual energy of wind.

There is a muscular energy in sunlight corresponding to the spiritual energy of wind.

There is a certain age at which a child looks at you in all earnestness...

There is a certain age at which a child looks at you in all earnestness...

How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.

How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.

Every book has an intrinsic impossibility, which its writer discovers as soon as his first...

Every book has an intrinsic impossibility, which its writer discovers as soon as his first...

A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It...

A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It...

As a life's work, I would remember everything - everything, against loss. I would go...

As a life's work, I would remember everything - everything, against loss. I would go...

I think the dying pray at the last not please but thank you as a...

I think the dying pray at the last not please but thank you as a...

Our life is a faint tracing on the surface of mystery, like the idle, curved...

Our life is a faint tracing on the surface of mystery, like the idle, curved...

Even as a coin attains its full value when it is spent, so life attains...

Even as a coin attains its full value when it is spent, so life attains...

Consideration for others is the basic of a good life, a good society.

Consideration for others is the basic of a good life, a good society.

Statistically 1 out of 5 females and 1 out of 8 males will go through...

Statistically 1 out of 5 females and 1 out of 8 males will go through...

If wise men were hairs the world would need a wig

If wise men were hairs the world would need a wig