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Annie Dillard
Annie Dillard
American Author
Born: Apr 30, 1945
Alone Life Think Time World You
Related authors: F. Scott Fitzgerald Frederick Douglass Helen Keller Henry David Thoreau Joyce Meyer Mark Twain Og Mandino Zig Ziglar
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
God Me You Hell Tell Would About Priest Sin Know Go Go To Hell Did Then Why
The surest sign of age is loneliness. Annie Dillard
Loneliness Age Sign Surest
How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. Annie Dillard
Our Spend Our Lives Days Course How Lives
I'm a housewife: I spend far more time on housework than anything else. Annie Dillard
Time Else Spend More Housewife Housework Than Anything Anything Else Far
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. Annie Dillard
Culture People Seven Possesses Scattered Throughout Take Souls According Person Greenland Six Tiny Form Body
As soon as beauty is sought not from religion and love, but for pleasure, it degrades the seeker. Annie Dillard
Love Religion Beauty Pleasure Seeker Soon Sought
Just think: in all the clean, beautiful reaches of the solar system, our planet alone is a blot; our planet alone has death. Annie Dillard
Beautiful Death Alone Solar Think Our Solar System Our Planet System Clean Blot Just Planet
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
Love Book Writing Pilot Worst Daring Spinning Wrestling Alligator Stem Feels Like Stunt Blind Blinded Rolls Sensation Sentence Turning Rearing Barrel Search Route Level
Write about winter in the summer. Annie Dillard
Winter Summer About Write
There is no such thing as an artist - only the world, lit or unlit, as the world allows. Annie Dillard
World Only Artist Lit Thing
I would like to learn, or remember, how to live. Annie Dillard
Education Remember Live Would Like Learn How
I woke in bits, like all children, piecemeal over the years. I discovered myself and the world, and forgot them, and discovered them again. Annie Dillard
Myself World Bits Over Like Woke Years Discovered Forgot Children Again Them
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
Myself Free Back Slip Would Would-Be Logic Never Terrifying Years Continuously Waking Predicted Process Again Far Far Away Noticed Awake Away
God gave me a talent to draw. I 'owed' it to him to develop the talent. Annie Dillard
God Me Gave Draw Develop Talent Him Owed
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. Annie Dillard
People World Think Seek Only Name How Artist Artists Lit Thing
The notion of the infinite variety of detail and the multiplicity of forms is a pleasing one; in complexity are the fringes of beauty, and in variety are generosity and exuberance. Annie Dillard
Beauty Pleasing Exuberance Complexity Detail Variety Generosity Infinite Forms Notion Multiplicity
A writer looking for subjects inquires not after what he loves best, but after what he alone loves at all. Annie Dillard
Alone Best Looking Writer He Subjects After Loves
Every book has an intrinsic impossibility, which its writer discovers as soon as his first excitement dwindles. Annie Dillard
Book First Every Intrinsic Writer Excitement Soon His Impossibility Discovers Which
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
You Will Past Nothing Aim Through Block Wood Chopping
The painter... does not fit the paints to the world. He most certainly does not fit the world to himself. He fits himself to the paint. The self is the servant who bears the paintbox and its inherited contents. Annie Dillard
World Bears Self He Most Himself Contents Does Fit Fits Certainly Inherited Paint Who Painter Paints Servant
Write as if you were dying. Annie Dillard
You Write Were Dying
The writer studies literature, not the world. Annie Dillard
World Writer Studies Literature
Our family was on the lunatic fringe. My mother was always completely irrepressible. My father made crowd noises into a microphone. Annie Dillard
Family Mother Father Made Our Crowd Noises Always Fringe Microphone Lunatic
The Pulitzer is more useful than meaningful. Annie Dillard
More Than Meaningful Useful Pulitzer
When I teach, I preach. I thump the Bible. I exhort my students morally. I talk to them about the dedicated life. Annie Dillard
Life Bible Preach About Morally Students Talk Them Teach Dedicated
I can't dance anymore. Total knee replacements. I can't do anything anymore. Annie Dillard
Dance Total Knee Anymore Anything
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