People love pretty much the same things best. A writer looking for subject inquires not after what he loves best, but after what he alone loves at all.Annie Dillard
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I would like to learn, or remember, how to live.
Annie Dillard
How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.
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?"
Annie Dillard
Spend the afternoon. You can't take it with you.
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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.
Annie Dillard
The writer studies literature, not the world. He is careful of what he reads, for that is what he will write.
Annie Dillard
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.
Annie Dillard
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