Quotes about Annie Dillard

Crystals grew inside rock like arithmetic flowers. They lengthened and spread, added plane to plane...

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

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Appealing workplaces are to be avoided. One wants a room with no view, so imagination...

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Aim for the chopping block. If you aim for the wood, you will have nothing....

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

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

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You can't test courage cautiously.

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There is no shortage of good days. It is good lives that are hard to...

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

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

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The writer studies literature, not the world. He is careful of what he reads, for...

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

#Annie Dillard