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Title: ~ Annie Dillard Quotes ~
Post by: MysteRy on December 01, 2013, 08:23:48 PM
Annie Dillard Quotes

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A Pulitzer Prize-winning American author, best known for her narrative prose in both fiction and non-fiction. 
Annie Dillard (born April 30, 1945) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American author, best known for her narrative prose in both fiction and non-fiction. She has published two novels, poetry, essays, prose, literary criticism, and a memoir.

Here are some famous quotes by Annie Dillard.

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The dedicated life is the life worth living.
Title: Re: ~ Annie Dillard Quotes ~
Post by: MysteRy on December 01, 2013, 08:25:49 PM
How we spend our days is of course how we spend our lives.
Title: Re: ~ Annie Dillard Quotes ~
Post by: MysteRy on December 01, 2013, 08:27:49 PM
In literary history generation follows generation in a rage.
Title: Re: ~ Annie Dillard Quotes ~
Post by: MysteRy on December 01, 2013, 08:37:11 PM
There is a muscular energy in sunlight corresponding to the spiritual energy of wind.
Title: Re: ~ Annie Dillard Quotes ~
Post by: MysteRy on December 01, 2013, 08:38:37 PM
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?'
Title: Re: ~ Annie Dillard Quotes ~
Post by: MysteRy on December 01, 2013, 08:39:39 PM
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.
Title: Re: ~ Annie Dillard Quotes ~
Post by: MysteRy on December 01, 2013, 08:42:47 PM
No; we have been as usual asking the wrong question. It does not matter a hoot what the mockingbird on the chimney is singing. The real and proper question is: Why is it beautiful?
Title: Re: ~ Annie Dillard Quotes ~
Post by: MysteRy on December 01, 2013, 08:46:47 PM
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.
Title: Re: ~ Annie Dillard Quotes ~
Post by: MysteRy on December 01, 2013, 08:52:38 PM
Somewhere and I can't find where I read about an Eskimo hunter who asked the local missionary priest 'If I did not know about God and sin would I go to hell?' 'No' said the priest 'not if you did not know.' 'Then why ' asked the Eskimo earnestly 'did you tell me?'