Annie Dillard Short Quotes

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The great thing about time is that it goes on.

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The faster death goes, the faster evolution goes.

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Time itself bent you and cracked you on its wheel.

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Like everyone in his right mind, I feared Santa Claus.

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If the day is fine, any walk will do; it all looks good.

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

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The novel is a game or joke shared between author and reader.

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The courage of children and beasts is a function of innocence.

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Why did I have to keep learning this same thing over and over?

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The blinding sway of their inner lives makes children immoral.

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Nothing moves a woman so deeply as the boyhood of the man she loves.

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They had quarreled about this single, solitary sore point: their life.

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Every live thing is a survivor on a kind of extended emergency bivouac.

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Every day is a god, each day is a god, and holiness holds forth in time.

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Writers serve as the memory of a people. They chew over our public past.

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Our life seems cursed to be a wiggle merely, and a wandering without end.

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The writer... is careful of what he reads, for that is what he will write.

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Silence is not our heritage but our destiny; we live where we want to live.

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I know only enough of God to want to worship him, by any means ready to hand.

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I saw in a blue haze all the world poured flat and pale between the mountains

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

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Buddhism notes that it is always a mistake to think your soul can go it alone.

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Ecstasy, I think, is a soul's response to the waves holiness makes as it nears.

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You can't test courage cautiously, so I ran hard and waved my arms hard, happy.

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Self-consciousness is the curse of the city and all that sophistication implies.

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We are here on the planet only once, and might as well get a feel for the place.

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We wake, if we ever wake at all, to mystery, rumors of death, beauty, violence...

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These are our few live seasons. Let us live them as purely as we can, in the present.

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I cannot cause light; the most I can do is try to put myself in the path of its beam.

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We are most deeply asleep at the switch when we fancy we control any switches at all.

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