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.

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• I don’t know what it is about fecundity that so appals. 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.

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• You do not have to sit outside in the dark. If, however, you want to look at the stars, you will find that darkness is necessary. But the stars neither require nor demand it.

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• The soul may ask God for anything, and never fail.

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• Private life, book life, took place where words met imagination without passing through the world.

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• So it is that a writer writes many books. In each book, he intended several urgent and vivid points, many of which he sacrificed as the book’s form hardened.

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• She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live.

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• If you’re going to publish a book, you probably are going to make a fool of yourself.

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• I’m a housewife: I spend far more time on housework than anything else.

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• I can’t dance anymore. Total knee replacements. I can’t do anything anymore.

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• How can people think that artists seek a name? There is no such thing as an artist – only the world, lit or unlit, as the world allows.

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• God gave me a talent to draw. I ‘owed’ it to him to develop the talent.

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• Buddhism notes that it is always a mistake to think your soul can go it alone.

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• At its best, the sensation of writing is that of any unmerited grace. It is handed to you, but only if you look for it.

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• All my books started out as extravagant and ended up pure and plain.

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• 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.

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• It’s a little silly to finally learn how to write at this age. But I long ago realized I was secretly sincere.

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• Matters of taste are not, it turns out, moral issues.

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• Our family was on the lunatic fringe. My mother was always completely irrepressible. My father made crowd noises into a microphone.

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• Much has been written about the life of the mind.

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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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