Annie Dillard Quotes - Page 13

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• For all the insularity of the old guard, Pittsburgh was always an open and democratic town.

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  Cities, Pittsburgh, Towns

  Annie Dillard (2016). “An American Childhood”, p.69, Canongate Books

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• Every day is a god, each day is a god, and holiness holds forth in time.

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  Each Day, Holiness

  Annie Dillard (2016). “Holy the Firm”, p.6, Canongate Books

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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.

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  Stars, Real, Thinking

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• Fiction keeps its audience by retaining the world as its subject matter. People like the world. Many people actually prefer it to art and spend their days by choice in the thick of it.

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  Art, People, Choices

  Annie Dillard (1983). “Living by Fiction”, New York : Harper & Row

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• What I call innocence is the spirit's unself-conscious state at any moment of pure devotion to any object. It is at once a receptiveness and total concentration.

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  Innocence, Spirit, Moments

  Annie Dillard (2011). “Pilgrim at Tinker Creek”, p.83, Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd

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• Novels written with film contracts in mind have a faint but unmistakable, and ruinous, odor.

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  Mind, Odor, Film

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• Who and of what import were the men whose bones bulk the Great Wall, the thirty million Mao starved, or the thirty million children not yet five who die each year now? Why, they are the insignificant others, of course; living or dead, they are just some of the plentiful others...And you? To what end were we billions of oddballs born?

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  Children, Wall, Men

  Annie Dillard (2010). “For the Time Being”, p.123, Vintage

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• Having chosen this foolishness, I was a free being. How could the world ever stop me, how could I betray myself, if I was not afraid?

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  World, Not Afraid, Betray

  Annie Dillard (2016). “An American Childhood”, p.102, Canongate Books

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• The way to learn about a writer is to read the text. Or texts.

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  Way

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• I had been chipping at the world idly, and had by accident uncovered vast and labyrinthine further worlds within it.

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  World, Accidents

  Annie Dillard (1989). “An American childhood”

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• The mind itself is an art object. It is a Mondrian canvas onto whose homemade grids it fits its own preselected products. Our knowledge is contextual and only contextual. Ordering and invention coincide: we call their collaboration knowledge.

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  Art, Mind, Collaboration

  Annie Dillard (1982). “Living by fiction”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• Your feelings are none of your business.

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  Feelings, None Of Your Business

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• I had good innings, as the British say. I wrote for 38 years at the top of my form, and I wanted to quit on a high note.

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  Years, Quitting, Form

  "Author Interview: Annie Dillard, Author of 'The Abundance'". Interview with Melissa Block, www.npr.org. March 12, 2016.

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• Old memories are very easy to get except that once you write about something you've destroyed it.

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  Memories, Writing, Easy

  "Author Interview: Annie Dillard, Author of 'The Abundance'". Interview with Melissa Block, www.npr.org. March 12, 2016.

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