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Annie Dillard quotes

American Author April 30, 1945

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The world is fairly studded and strewn with pennies cast broadside by a generous hand. But- and this is the point- who gets excited by a mere penny? But if you cultivate a healthy poverty and simplicity, so that finding a penny will literally make your day, then, since the world is in fact planted in pennies, you have with your poverty bought a lifetime of days. Annie Dillard
Annie Dillard quote: "There is a muscular energy in sunlight corresponding to the..."
There is a muscular energy in sunlight corresponding to the spiritual energy of wind. Annie Dillard
In a dry wind like this, snow and ice can pass directly into the air as a gas without having first melted to water. This process is called sublimation; tonight the snow in the yard and the ice in the creek sublime. Annie Dillard
Annie Dillard quote: "Cruelty is a mystery, and a waste of pain."
Cruelty is a mystery, and a waste of pain. Annie Dillard
Wherever we go, there seems to be only one business at hand - that of finding workable compromises between the sublimity of our ideas and the absurdity of the fact of us. Annie Dillard
Annie Dillard quote: "If you're going to publish a book, you probably are going to..."
If you're going to publish a book, you probably are going to make a fool of yourself. Annie Dillard
Annie Dillard quote: "I can't dance anymore. Total knee replacements. I can't do..."
I can't dance anymore. Total knee replacements. I can't do anything anymore. Annie Dillard
Annie Dillard quote: "Every book has an intrinsic impossibility, which its writer..."
Every book has an intrinsic impossibility, which its writer discovers as soon as his first excitement dwindles. Annie Dillard
Annie Dillard quote: "The Pulitzer is more useful than meaningful."
The Pulitzer is more useful than meaningful. Annie Dillard
Annie Dillard quote: "Make connections; let rip; and dance where you can."
Make connections; let rip; and dance where you can. Annie Dillard
At night on land migrating monarchs slumber on certain trees, hung in festoons with wings folded together, thick on the trees and shaggy as bearskin. [p. 244] Annie Dillard
Annie Dillard quote: "I would like to learn, or remember, how to live."
I would like to learn, or remember, how to live. Annie Dillard
Annie Dillard quote: "I cannot cause light; the most I can do is try to put myself..."
I cannot cause light; the most I can do is try to put myself in the path of its beam. Annie Dillard
How can people think that artists seek a name? There is no such thing as an artist - only the world, lit or unlit, as the world allows. Annie Dillard
How loose he seemed to himself, under the stars! The spaces between the stars were pores, out of which human meaning evaporated. Annie Dillard

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