Quotes by Annie Dillard

Annie Dillard

A schedule defends from chaos and whim. A net for catching days.

Catching

Chaos

Schedules

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A shepherd on a hilltop who looks at a mess of stars and thinks, ‘There’s a hunter, a plow, a fish,’ is making mental connections that have as much real force in the universe as the very fires in those stars themselves.

Real

Stars

Thinking

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About five years ago I saw a mockingbird make a straight vertical descent from the roof gutter of a four-story building. It was an act as careless and spontaneous as the curl of a stem or the kindling of a star.

Curls

Stars

Years

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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.

Inuit

People

Soul

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After the one extravagant gesture of creation in the first place, the universe has continued to deal exclusively in extravagances, flinging intricacies and colossi down aeons of emptiness, heaping profusions on profligacies with ever-fresh vigor. The whole show has been on fire from the word go. I come down to the water to cool my eyes. But everywhere I look I see fire; that which isn’t flint is tinder, and the whole world sparks and flames.

Eye

Fire

Flames

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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.

Block

Past

Woods

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Almost all of my many passionate interests, and my many changes of mind, came through books. Books prompted the many vows I made to myself.

Book

Mind

Passionate

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Anything you do not give freely and abundantly becomes lost to you.

Giving

Lost

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Appealing workplaces are to be avoided. One wants a room with no view, so imagination can meet memory in the dark.

Memories

Work

Writing

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

Beauty

Love

Religion

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