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Annie-dillard

Annie Dillard
(American Author)

Date of Birth:: April 30, 1945
Nationality:: American
Quote count:: 35
Times favorited:: 36

Annie Dillard is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American author, best known for her narrative nonfiction. She has also published poetry, essays, literary criticism, autobiography, and fiction. She is married to the historical biographer Robert D. Richardson, Jr.

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Annie Dillard

“Eskimo: "If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell?" Priest: "No, not if you did not know." Eskimo: "Then why did you tell me?"”

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Annie Dillard

“A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is a scaffolding on which a worker can stand and labor with both hands at sections of time.”

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Annie Dillard

“Because how we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.”

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Annie Dillard

“You can't test courage cautiously.”

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Annie Dillard

“Spend the afternoon. You can't take it with you.”

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Annie Dillard

“As soon as beauty is sought not from religion and love, but for pleasure, it degrades the seeker.”

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Annie Dillard

“The secret of seeing is to sail on solar wind. Hone and spread your spirit, till you yourself are a sail, whetted, translucent, broadside to the merest puff.”

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Annie Dillard

“It could be that our faithlessness is a cowering cowardice born of our very smallness, a massive failure of imagination... If we were to judge nature by common sense or likelihood, we wouldn't believe the world existed.”

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Annie Dillard

“I would like to learn, or remember, how to live.”

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“I am a frayed and nibbled survivor in a fallen world, and I am getting along. I am aging and eaten and have done my share of eating too. I am not washed and beautiful, in control of a shining world in which everything fits, but instead am wondering awed about on a splintered wreck I've come to care for, whose gnawed trees breathe a delicate air, whose bloodied and scarred creatures are my dearest companions, and whose beauty bats and shines not in its imperfections but overwhelmingly in spite of them...”

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