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Annie Dillard Quotes

What I call innocence is the spirit’s unself-conscious state at any moment of pure devotion to any object. It is at once a receptiveness and total concentration Picture Quote #1

It should surprise no one that the life of the writer - such as it is - is colorless to the point of sensory deprivation. Many writers do little else but sit in small rooms recalling the real world Picture Quote #1

Your freedom as a writer is not freedom of expression in the sense of wild blurting; you may not let rip. It is life at its most free, if you are fortunate enough to be able to try it, because you select your materials, invent your task, and pace yourself Picture Quote #1

Writing a book is like rearing children -- willpower has very little to do with it. If you have a little baby crying in the middle of the night, and if you depend only on willpower to get you out of bed to feed the baby, that baby will starve. You do it out of love Picture Quote #1

Knowing you are alive is watching on every side your generation’s short time falling away as fast as rivers drop through air, and feeling it hit Picture Quote #1

People love pretty much the same things best. A writer looking for subjects inquires not after what he loves best, but after what he alone loves at all Picture Quote #1

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We are here to abet creation and to witness to it, to notice each other’s beautiful face and complex nature so that creation need not play to an empty house Picture Quote #1

A schedule is a mock-up of reason and order - willed, faked, and so brought into being Picture Quote #1

I was still ringing. I had been my whole life a bell, and never knew it until at that moment I was lifted and struck Picture Quote #1

I never met a man who was shaken by a field of identical blades of grass. An acre of poppies and a forest of spruce boggle no one’s mind Picture Quote #1

The sensation of writing a book is the sensation of spinning, blinded by love and daring. It is the sensation of a stunt pilot’s turning barrel rolls, or an inchworm’s blind rearing from a stem in search of a route. At its worst, it feels like alligator wrestling, at the level of the sentence Picture Quote #1

I would like to live. . . open to time and death painlessly, noticing everything, remembering nothing, choosing the given with a fierce and pointed will Picture Quote #1

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I want to climb up the blank blue dome as a man would storm the inside of a circus tent, wildly, dangling, and with a steel knife claw a rent in the top, peep, and, if I must, fall Picture Quote #1

Were the earth smooth, our brains would be smooth as well; we would wake, blink, walk two steps to get the whole picture, and lapse into a dreamless sleep Picture Quote #1

Old memories are very easy to get except that once you write about something you’ve destroyed it 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

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 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

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I smelled silt on the wind, turkey, laundry, leaves . . . my God what a world. There is no accounting for one second of it (267) Picture Quote #1

Don’t save something good for a later place. Don’t hold back from your students, from the poor, don’t try to keep anything for yourself ‘cause it’ll turn to ashes Picture Quote #1

In working-class France, when an apprentice got hurt, or when he got tired, the experienced workers said It is the trade entering his body Picture Quote #1

Who and of what import were the men whose bones bulk the Great Wall, the thirty million Mao starved, or the thirty million children not yet five who die each year now? Why, they are the insignificant others, of course; living or dead, they are just some of the plentiful others...And you? To what end were we billions of oddballs born? Picture Quote #1

It has always been a happy thought to me that the creek runs on all night, new every minute, whether I wish it or know it or care, as a closed book on a shelf continues to whisper to itself its own inexhaustible tale Picture Quote #1

Spend the afternoon. You can't take it with you Picture Quote #1

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I would like to learn, or remember, how to live Picture Quote #1

The surest sign of age is loneliness Picture Quote #1

The extravagant gesture is the very stuff of creation Picture Quote #1

The universe was not made in jest but in solemn incomprehensible earnest Picture Quote #1

In literary history, generation follows generation in a rage Picture Quote #1

Private life, book life, took place where words met imagination without passing through the world Picture Quote #1

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What I call innocence is the spirit’s unself-conscious state at any moment of pure devotion to any object. It is at once a receptiveness and total concentration (Annie Dillard Quotes) It should surprise no one that the life of the writer - such as it is - is colorless to the point of sensory deprivation. Many writers do little else but sit in small rooms recalling the real world (Annie Dillard Quotes) Your freedom as a writer is not freedom of expression in the sense of wild blurting; you may not let rip. It is life at its most free, if you are fortunate enough to be able to try it, because you select your materials, invent your task, and pace yourself (Annie Dillard Quotes) Writing a book is like rearing children -- willpower has very little to do with it. If you have a little baby crying in the middle of the night, and if you depend only on willpower to get you out of bed to feed the baby, that baby will starve. You do it out of love (Annie Dillard Quotes) Knowing you are alive is watching on every side your generation’s short time falling away as fast as rivers drop through air, and feeling it hit. (Annie Dillard Quotes) People love pretty much the same things best. A writer looking for subjects inquires not after what he loves best, but after what he alone loves at all. (Annie Dillard Quotes) We are here to abet creation and to witness to it, to notice each other’s beautiful face and complex nature so that creation need not play to an empty house. (Annie Dillard Quotes) A schedule is a mock-up of reason and order - willed, faked, and so brought into being (Annie Dillard Quotes) I was still ringing. I had been my whole life a bell, and never knew it until at that moment I was lifted and struck. (Annie Dillard Quotes) I never met a man who was shaken by a field of identical blades of grass. An acre of poppies and a forest of spruce boggle no one’s mind. (Annie Dillard Quotes) The sensation of writing a book is the sensation of spinning, blinded by love and daring. It is the sensation of a stunt pilot’s turning barrel rolls, or an inchworm’s blind rearing from a stem in search of a route. At its worst, it feels like alligator wrestling, at the level of the sentence. (Annie Dillard Quotes) I would like to live. . . open to time and death painlessly, noticing everything, remembering nothing, choosing the given with a fierce and pointed will. (Annie Dillard Quotes) I want to climb up the blank blue dome as a man would storm the inside of a circus tent, wildly, dangling, and with a steel knife claw a rent in the top, peep, and, if I must, fall. (Annie Dillard Quotes) Were the earth smooth, our brains would be smooth as well; we would wake, blink, walk two steps to get the whole picture, and lapse into a dreamless sleep. (Annie Dillard Quotes) Old memories are very easy to get except that once you write about something you’ve destroyed it. (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) 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. (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) I smelled silt on the wind, turkey, laundry, leaves . . . my God what a world. There is no accounting for one second of it (267). (Annie Dillard Quotes) Don’t save something good for a later place. Don’t hold back from your students, from the poor, don’t try to keep anything for yourself ‘cause it’ll turn to ashes. (Annie Dillard Quotes) In working-class France, when an apprentice got hurt, or when he got tired, the experienced workers said It is the trade entering his body. (Annie Dillard Quotes) Who and of what import were the men whose bones bulk the Great Wall, the thirty million Mao starved, or the thirty million children not yet five who die each year now? Why, they are the insignificant others, of course; living or dead, they are just some of the plentiful others...And you? To what end were we billions of oddballs born? (Annie Dillard Quotes) It has always been a happy thought to me that the creek runs on all night, new every minute, whether I wish it or know it or care, as a closed book on a shelf continues to whisper to itself its own inexhaustible tale. (Annie Dillard Quotes) Spend the afternoon. You can't take it with you (Annie Dillard Quotes) I would like to learn, or remember, how to live (Annie Dillard Quotes) The surest sign of age is loneliness (Annie Dillard Quotes) The extravagant gesture is the very stuff of creation (Annie Dillard Quotes) The universe was not made in jest but in solemn incomprehensible earnest (Annie Dillard Quotes) In literary history, generation follows generation in a rage (Annie Dillard Quotes) Private life, book life, took place where words met imagination without passing through the world (Annie Dillard Quotes)

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