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Annie Dillard Quotes

American - Author | April 30, 1945 -

There is a muscular energy in sunlight corresponding to the spiritual energy of wind.

Spiritual Environmental Wind Energy

It is ironic that the one thing that all religions recognize as separating us from our creator, our very self-consciousness, is also the one thing that divides us from our fellow creatures. It was a bitter birthday present from evolution.

Birthday Present Evolution Religions

The surest sign of age is loneliness.

Age Loneliness Sign Surest

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.

Time Chaos Stand Hands Labor Days

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?'

God Me Hell You Sin Know

The sensation of writing a book is the sensation of spinning, blinded by love and daring. It is the sensation of a stunt pilot's turning barrel rolls, or an inchworm's blind rearing from a stem in search of a route. At its worst, it feels like alligator wrestling, at the level of the sentence.

Love Writing Book Blind Search

Your work is to keep cranking the flywheel that turns the gears that spin the belt in the engine of belief that keeps you and your desk in midair.

Work You Desk Belief Gears Spin

Crystals grew inside rock like arithmetic flowers. They lengthened and spread, added plane to plane in an awed and perfect obedience to an absolute geometry that even stones - maybe only the stones - understood.

Flowers Perfect Obedience Rock Only

When I first read the words 'introvert' and 'extrovert' when I was 10, I thought I was both.

Words Thought First Extrovert Read

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.

Culture People Body Person Take Six

How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.

Days Course Our How Our Lives Spend

I'm a housewife: I spend far more time on housework than anything else.

Time More Anything Housewife Far

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