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Annie Dillard quotes

American Author April 30, 1945

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Annie Dillard quote: "Anything you do not give freely and abundantly becomes lost..."
Anything you do not give freely and abundantly becomes lost to you. Annie Dillard
Annie Dillard quote: "The secret of seeing is to sail on solar wind."
The secret of seeing is to sail on solar wind. Annie Dillard
Annie Dillard quote: "It is no less difficult to write a sentence in a recipe than..."
It is no less difficult to write a sentence in a recipe than sentences in Moby Dick. So you might as well write Moby Dick. Annie Dillard
On plenty of days the writer can write three or four pages, and on plenty of other days he concludes he must throw them away. Annie Dillard
When I was fifteen, I felt it coming; now I was sixteen, and it hit. My feet had imperceptibly been set on a new path...there wasn't a whole lot I could do about it, or about anything. I was going to hell on a handcart, that was all, and I knew it and everyone around me knew it, and there it was. Annie Dillard
Annie Dillard quote: "The real and proper question is: why is it beutiful?"
The real and proper question is: why is it beutiful? Annie Dillard
Annie Dillard quote: "It is difficult to undo our own damage, and to recall to our..."
It is difficult to undo our own damage, and to recall to our presence that which we have asked to leave. Annie Dillard
Annie Dillard quote: "This is a spendthrift economy; though nothing is lost, all is..."
This is a spendthrift economy; though nothing is lost, all is spent. Annie Dillard
Aim for the chopping block. If you aim for the wood, you will have nothing. Aim past the wood, aim through the wood; aim for the chopping block. Annie Dillard
Annie Dillard quote: "Flung is too harsh a word for the rush of the world. Blown is..."
Flung is too harsh a word for the rush of the world. Blown is more like it, but blown by a generous, unending breath. Annie Dillard
I noticed this process of waking, and predicted with terrifying logic that one of these years not far away I would be awake continuously and never slip back, and never be free of myself again. Annie Dillard
Annie Dillard quote: "I set up and staged hundreds of ends-of-the-world and watched,..."
I set up and staged hundreds of ends-of-the-world and watched, enthralled, as they played themselves out. Annie Dillard
Annie Dillard quote: "I discovered myself and the world, and forgot them, and..."
I discovered myself and the world, and forgot them, and discovered them again Annie Dillard
Annie Dillard quote: "I had been chipping at the world idly, and had by accident..."
I had been chipping at the world idly, and had by accident uncovered vast and labyrinthine further worlds within it. Annie Dillard
Annie Dillard quote: "if you stay still, earth buries you, ready or not."
if you stay still, earth buries you, ready or not. Annie Dillard

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