Annie Dillard Quotes

• The dedicated life is worth living. You must give with your whole heart.

  Annie Dillard

• 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

• It is ironic that the one thing that all religions recognize as separating us from our creator, our very self-consciousness, is also the one thing that divides us from our fellow creatures. It was a bitter birthday present from evolution.

  Annie Dillard

• I would like to learn, or remember, how to live.

  Annie Dillard

• I woke in bits, like all children, piecemeal over the years. I discovered myself and the world, and forgot them, and discovered them again.

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• I noticed this process of waking, and predicted with terrifying logic that one of these years not far away I would be awake continuously and never slip back, and never be free of myself again.

  Annie Dillard

• Every book has an intrinsic impossibility, which its writer discovers as soon as his first excitement dwindles.

  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

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

  Annie Dillard

• As a life’s work, I would remember everything – everything, against loss. I would go through life like a plankton net.

  Annie Dillard

• 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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• Aim for the chopping block. If you aim for the wood, you will have nothing. Aim past the wood, aim through the wood; aim for the chopping block.

  Annie Dillard

• There is a muscular energy in sunlight corresponding to the spiritual energy of wind.

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  Topics in Nature

• There must be bands of enthusiasts for everything on earth-fanatics who shared a vocabulary, a batch of technical skills and equipment, and, perhaps, a vision of some single slice of the beauty and mystery of things, of their complexity, fascination, and unexpectedness.

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  Topics in Work

• The surest sign of age is loneliness.

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  Topics in Age, Funny

• If we listened to our intellect, we’d never have a love affair. We’d never have a friendship. We’d never go into business, because we’d be too cynical. Well, that’s nonsense. You’ve got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down.

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  Topics in Risk

Annie Dillard (56)

Birth:	30th April, 1945
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Author, Essayist, Novelist, Poet, Teacher

About

Annie Dillard is an American author, best known for her narrative prose in both fiction and non-fiction. She has published works of poetry, essays, prose, and literary criticism, as well as two novels and one memoir. Her 1974 work Pilgrim at Tinker Creek won the 1975 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction. Dillard taught for 21 years in the English department of Wesleyan University, in Middletown, Connecticut.

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