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Annie Dillard Quotes

«The surest sign of age is loneliness.»
Author: Annie Dillard (Author) | Keywords: of age, surest
«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.»
«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.»
«I startled a weasel who startled me, and we exchanged a long glance. . . . Our eyes locked, and someone threw away the key.»
«The dedicated life is worth living. You must give with your whole heart.»
«Cruelty is a mystery and a waste of pain»
Author: Annie Dillard (Author) | About: Cruelty
«I woke in bits, like all children, piecemeal over the years. I discovered myself and the world, and forgot them, and discovered them again.»
«There is no shortage of good days. It is good lives that are hard to come by.»
«dead and dying.»
«There is a muscular energy in sunlight corresponding to the spiritual energy of wind.»

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