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Letter "A" » Annie Dillard Quotes
«The surest sign of age is loneliness.»
«Just once I wanted a task that required all the joy I had. Day after day I had noticed that if I waited long enough, my strong unexpressed joy would dwindle and dissipate inside me, like a fire subsiding . . . . Just this once I wanted to let it rip.»
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«There is a certain age at which a child looks at you in all earnestness and delivers a long, pleased speech in all the true inflections of spoken English, but with not one recognizable syllable.»
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«I startled a weasel who startled me, and we exchanged a long glance. . . . Our eyes locked, and someone threw away the key.»
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«The dedicated life is worth living. You must give with your whole heart.»
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«Cruelty is a mystery and a waste of pain»
«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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«There is no shortage of good days. It is good lives that are hard to come by.»
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«dead and dying.»
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«There is a muscular energy in sunlight corresponding to the spiritual energy of wind.»
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