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Annie Dillard quotes about life

American Author April 30, 1945

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When, over the following months, Minta Randall found that Eustace apparently reciprocated her profoundest and most secret feelings, she thought she had never lived before, or knew what life could hold, or what absolute power one heart could exert upon another. She perceived no trace, fossil, or echo of this wild sensation anywhere around her, and concluded that she and Eustace had invented it together, which would be, she thought, just like them. Annie Dillard
Annie Dillard quote: "When I teach, I preach. I thump the Bible. I exhort my..."
When I teach, I preach. I thump the Bible. I exhort my students morally. I talk to them about the dedicated life. Annie Dillard
Noticing and remembering everything would trap bright scenes to light and fill the blank and darkening past which was already piling up behind me. The growing size of that blank and ever-darkening past frightened me; it loomed beside me like a hole in the air and battened on scraps of my life I failed to claim. If one day I forgot to notice my life, and be damned grateful for it, the blank cave would suck me up entire. Annie Dillard
Annie Dillard quote: "life by its mere appalling length is a feat of endurance for..."
life by its mere appalling length is a feat of endurance for which you haven't the strength. Annie Dillard
Annie Dillard quote: "I worked so hard all my life, and all I want to do now is read."
I worked so hard all my life, and all I want to do now is read. Annie Dillard
The reader's ear must adjust down from loud life to the subtle, imaginary sounds of the written word. An ordinary reader picking up a book can't yet hear a thing; it will take half an hour to pick up the writing's modulations, its ups and downs and louds and softs. Annie Dillard
Annie Dillard quote: "Private life, book life, took place where words met..."
Private life, book life, took place where words met imagination without passing through the world. Annie Dillard
Our life is a faint tracing on the surface of mystery, like the idle curved tunnels of leaf miners on the face of a leaf. We must somehow take a wider view, look at the whole landscape, really see it, and describe what's going on here. Then we can at least wail the right question into the swaddling band of darkness, or, if it comes to that, choir the proper praise. Annie Dillard
Annie Dillard quote: "As a life's work, I would remember everything - everything,..."
As a life's work, I would remember everything - everything, against loss. I would go through life like a plankton net. Annie Dillard
What is important is the moment of opening a life and feeling it touch--with an electric hiss and cry--this speckled mineral sphere, our present world. Annie Dillard
Annie Dillard quote: "The dedicated life is worth living. You must give with your..."
The dedicated life is worth living. You must give with your whole heart. Annie Dillard
Annie Dillard quote: "The interior life is often stupid."
The interior life is often stupid. Annie Dillard
For writing a first draft requires from the writer a peculiar internal state which ordinary life does not induce. ... how to set yourself spinning? Annie Dillard
Annie Dillard quote: "Much has been written about the life of the mind."
Much has been written about the life of the mind. Annie Dillard
Annie Dillard quote: "I had been my whole life a bell, and never knew it until at..."
I had been my whole life a bell, and never knew it until at that moment I was lifted and struck. Annie Dillard

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