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Annie Dillard Quotes

Write as if you were dying. At the same time, assume you write for an audience consisting solely of terminal patients. That is, after all, the case. What would you begin writing if you knew you would die soon? What could you say to a dying person that would not enrage by its triviality?

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: american
Birth: April 30, 1945

Topics

Time Writing Die You Person Say

I'm not tied to any particular political line.

Political Line Tied Any Particular

Your weak point is the open, vulnerable place where you can always be hurt. Love, in all its aspects, opens the self so fully.

Jeanette Winterson

Love Hurt Self You Place Weak

No new projects at the moment. There are restrictions to how much I can take on. And I need to finish those that I am committed to do before thinking ahead. But I'd rather they take final shape before we talk of them.

Amitabh Bachchan

Moment I Am Thinking I Can New Talk

For our immediate family and relatives, Canada was a land of opportunity.

Family Opportunity Canada Land Our

I'm dubious about having Social Security put into the stock market. I think that we have gotten very far away from the idea that there's something sacrosanct about retirement investments.

Think Retirement Stock Market Market

Often audiences vary... but I've always found Milwaukee to be a fabulous place to play with great audiences and very hip.

Great Place Play Fabulous Always

There's a lot of women in the WNBA. There's a lot of women who could be here. To be voted by the fans says a lot - that people are aware of what's going on. I'm really thankful. I think they just really appreciate my talent so I'm definitely grateful.

Women Thankful Grateful Talent Think

From 1994 to 1997, I did nothing. I slept and slept and slept. If I was awake, I had to deal with things, I had to do things. In order to avoid that, I would just stay in bed.

Jonathan Knight

Bed Nothing Order Things Stay Awake

This is a paradox of man: compared to God, man is nothing; yet we are everything to God.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

God Man Nothing Everything Paradox

I have a critical nature, in the sense that when I look at something I often look for the flaws.

Nature Look Flaws Something Sense

I want to thank coach Thompson... for saving my life. For giving me the opportunity.

Life Opportunity Me Giving My Life

I was not allowed to take spherical trigonometry because I'd sprained my ankle. Because I'd sprained my ankle, I had an incomplete in gym, phys ed. And the rule was that if you had an incomplete in anything, you were not allowed to take an overload.

William Shockley

You Gym Anything Incomplete Take

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