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Annie Dillard Quotes

The world knew you before you knew the world Picture Quote #1

How you spend your days is how you spend your life Picture Quote #1

Every live thing is a survivor on a kind of extended emergency bivouac Picture Quote #1

Write about winter in the summer Picture Quote #1

The creatures I seek do not want to be seen Picture Quote #1

The interior life is often stupid Picture Quote #1

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The way to learn about a writer is to read the text. Or texts Picture Quote #1

Put yourself out of your misery Picture Quote #1

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?” Picture Quote #1

What is a house but a bigger skin, and a neighborhood map but the world’s skin ever expanding Picture Quote #1

For writing a first draft requires from the writer a peculiar internal state which ordinary life does not induce... how to set yourself spinning? Picture Quote #1

As a life’s work, I would remember everything - everything, against loss. I would go through life like a plankton net Picture Quote #1

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Unless all ages and races of men have been deluded by the same mass hypnotist (who?), there seems to be such a thing as beauty, a grace wholly gratuitous Picture Quote #1

According to Inuit culture in Greenland, a person possesses six or seven souls. The souls take the form of tiny people scattered throughout the body Picture Quote #1

God gave me a talent to draw. I ‘owed’ it to him to develop the talent Picture Quote #1

When I teach, I preach. I thump the Bible. I exhort my students morally. I talk to them about the dedicated life Picture Quote #1

It makes more sense to write one big book - a novel or nonfiction narrative - than to write many stories or essays. Into a long, ambitious project you can fit or pour all you possess and learn Picture Quote #1

Last forever!’ Who hasn’t prayed that prayer? You were lucky to get it in the first place. The present is a freely given canvas. That it is constantly being ripped apart and washed downstream goes without saying Picture Quote #1

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Out of a human population on earth of four and a half billion, perhaps twenty people can write a book in a year. Some people lift cars, too. Some people enter week-long sled-dog races, go over Niagara Falls in a barrel, fly planes through the Arc de Triomphe. Some people feel no pain in childbirth. Some people eat cars. There is no call to take human extremes as norms Picture Quote #1

I saw in a blue haze all the world poured flat and pale between the mountains Picture Quote #1

The point of going somewhere like the Napo River in Ecuador is not to see the most spectacular anything. It is simply to see what is there Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

Whenever there is stillness there is the still small voice, God’s speaking from the whirlwind, nature’s old song, and dance Picture Quote #1

What have we been doing all these centuries but trying to call God back to the mountain, or, failing that, raise a peep out of anything that isn’t us? What is the difference between a cathedral and a physics lab? Are not they both saying: Hello? We spy on whales and on interstellar radio objects; we starve ourselves and pray till we’re blue Picture Quote #1

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We are here to witness. There is nothing else to do with those mute materials we do not need. Until Larry teaches his stone to talk, until God changes his mind, or until the pagan gods slip back to their hilltop groves, all we can do with the whole inhuman array is watch it Picture Quote #1

At night I read and write, and things I have never understood become clear; I reap the harvest of the rest of the year’s planting Picture Quote #1

We live in all we seek. The hidden shows up in too-plain sight. It lives captive on the face of the obvious - the people, events, and things of the day - to which we as sophisticated children have long since become oblivious. What a hideout: Holiness lies spread and borne over the surface of time and stuff like color Picture Quote #1

Doing something does not require discipline. It creates its own discipline - with a little help from caffeine Picture Quote #1

Write about winter in the summer. Describe Norway as Ibsen did, from a desk in Italy; describe Dublin as James Joyce did, from a desk in Paris. Willa Cather wrote her prairie novels in New York City; Mark Twain wrote Huckleberry Finn in Hartford, Connecticut. Recently, scholars learned that Walt Whitman rarely left his room Picture Quote #1

I still try to keep my eyes open. I’m always on the lookout for antlion traps in sandy soil, monarch pupae near milkweed, skipper larvae in locust leaves. These things are utterly common, and I’ve not seen one Picture Quote #1

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The world knew you before you knew the world (Annie Dillard Quotes) How you spend your days is how you spend your life (Annie Dillard Quotes) Every live thing is a survivor on a kind of extended emergency bivouac (Annie Dillard Quotes) Write about winter in the summer (Annie Dillard Quotes) The creatures I seek do not want to be seen (Annie Dillard Quotes) The interior life is often stupid (Annie Dillard Quotes) The way to learn about a writer is to read the text. Or texts (Annie Dillard Quotes) Put yourself out of your misery (Annie Dillard Quotes) 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?” (Annie Dillard Quotes) What is a house but a bigger skin, and a neighborhood map but the world’s skin ever expanding (Annie Dillard Quotes) 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 Quotes) As a life’s work, I would remember everything - everything, against loss. I would go through life like a plankton net (Annie Dillard Quotes) Unless all ages and races of men have been deluded by the same mass hypnotist (who?), there seems to be such a thing as beauty, a grace wholly gratuitous (Annie Dillard Quotes) According to Inuit culture in Greenland, a person possesses six or seven souls. The souls take the form of tiny people scattered throughout the body (Annie Dillard Quotes) God gave me a talent to draw. I ‘owed’ it to him to develop the talent (Annie Dillard Quotes) When I teach, I preach. I thump the Bible. I exhort my students morally. I talk to them about the dedicated life (Annie Dillard Quotes) It makes more sense to write one big book - a novel or nonfiction narrative - than to write many stories or essays. Into a long, ambitious project you can fit or pour all you possess and learn (Annie Dillard Quotes) Last forever!’ Who hasn’t prayed that prayer? You were lucky to get it in the first place. The present is a freely given canvas. That it is constantly being ripped apart and washed downstream goes without saying (Annie Dillard Quotes) Out of a human population on earth of four and a half billion, perhaps twenty people can write a book in a year. Some people lift cars, too. Some people enter week-long sled-dog races, go over Niagara Falls in a barrel, fly planes through the Arc de Triomphe. Some people feel no pain in childbirth. Some people eat cars. There is no call to take human extremes as norms (Annie Dillard Quotes) I saw in a blue haze all the world poured flat and pale between the mountains (Annie Dillard Quotes) The point of going somewhere like the Napo River in Ecuador is not to see the most spectacular anything. It is simply to see what is there (Annie Dillard Quotes) 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 Quotes) Whenever there is stillness there is the still small voice, God’s speaking from the whirlwind, nature’s old song, and dance (Annie Dillard Quotes) What have we been doing all these centuries but trying to call God back to the mountain, or, failing that, raise a peep out of anything that isn’t us? What is the difference between a cathedral and a physics lab? Are not they both saying: Hello? We spy on whales and on interstellar radio objects; we starve ourselves and pray till we’re blue (Annie Dillard Quotes) We are here to witness. There is nothing else to do with those mute materials we do not need. Until Larry teaches his stone to talk, until God changes his mind, or until the pagan gods slip back to their hilltop groves, all we can do with the whole inhuman array is watch it (Annie Dillard Quotes) At night I read and write, and things I have never understood become clear; I reap the harvest of the rest of the year’s planting (Annie Dillard Quotes) We live in all we seek. The hidden shows up in too-plain sight. It lives captive on the face of the obvious - the people, events, and things of the day - to which we as sophisticated children have long since become oblivious. What a hideout: Holiness lies spread and borne over the surface of time and stuff like color (Annie Dillard Quotes) Doing something does not require discipline. It creates its own discipline - with a little help from caffeine (Annie Dillard Quotes) Write about winter in the summer. Describe Norway as Ibsen did, from a desk in Italy; describe Dublin as James Joyce did, from a desk in Paris. Willa Cather wrote her prairie novels in New York City; Mark Twain wrote Huckleberry Finn in Hartford, Connecticut. Recently, scholars learned that Walt Whitman rarely left his room (Annie Dillard Quotes) I still try to keep my eyes open. I’m always on the lookout for antlion traps in sandy soil, monarch pupae near milkweed, skipper larvae in locust leaves. These things are utterly common, and I’ve not seen one (Annie Dillard Quotes)

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