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Annie Dillard Quotes
«I think the dying pray at the last not please but thank you as a guest thanks his host at the door»
«Every book has an intrinsic impossibility, which its writer discovers as soon as his first excitement dwindles.»
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«Appealing workplaces are to be avoided. One wants a room with no view, so imagination can meet memory in the dark.»
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«I don't know what it is about fecundity that so appalls. I suppose it is the teeming evidence that birth and growth, which we value, are ubiquitous and blind, that life itself is so astonishingly cheap, that nature is as careless as it is bountiful, and that with extravagance goes a crushing waste that will one day include our own cheap lives.»
Author: Annie Dillard
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«No child on earth was ever meant to be ordinary, and you can see it in them, and they know it, too, but then the times get to them, and they wear out their brains learning what folks expect, and spend their strength trying to rise over those same folks.»
Author: Annie Dillard
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«Crystals grew inside rock like arithmetic flowers. They lengthened and spread, added plane to plane in an awed and perfect obedience to an absolute geometry that even stones -- maybe only the stones -- understood.»
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«The sense impressions of one-celled animals are not edited for the brain. This is philosophically interesting in a rather mournful way, since it means that only the simplest animals perceive the universe as it is.»
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