Annie Dillard Quotes About Past

Quotes about: Past

• 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

  Block, Past, Woods

• Writers serve as the memory of a people. They chew over our public past.

  Annie Dillard

  Memories, Writing, Past

  Annie Dillard, Robert Atwan (1988). “The Best American Essays”

• Noticing and remembering everything would trap bright scenes to light and fill the blank and darkening past which was already piling up behind me. The growing size of that blank and ever-darkening past frightened me; it loomed beside me like a hole in the air and battened on scraps of my life I failed to claim. If one day I forgot to notice my life, and be damned grateful for it, the blank cave would suck me up entire.

  Annie Dillard

  Grateful, Past, Light

  "An American Childhood". Book by Annie Dillard, www.huffingtonpost.com. 2009.

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