Annie Dillard Quotes

It makes more sense to write one big book - a novel or nonfiction narrative - than to write many stories or essays. Into a long, ambitious project you can fit or pour all you possess and learn.

Annie Dillard

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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Music has become a bigger business, and with that there is more pressure to succeed; I think that it creates a negative pressure for being creative.

Jerry Harrison

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When Howard Dean started saying some honest things, they hung him.

Robert Scheer

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Like most Montanans, I get pretty upset when I hear about waste.

Matt Rosendale

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My cultural roots are something illusive.

Ang Lee

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Many people who voted for Mr. Obama in the last election did so based on skin color.

Alveda King

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It is so important for people at a young age to be invited to embrace classical music and opera.

Luciano Pavarotti

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I was born into public service.

Janice Hahn

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Everyone wants to demagogue everyone else. That may be good politics, but it's awful policy.

Chris Christie

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I return to the stage time and again to see if I am worth anything.

Ali Fazal

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It's important to produce economic development. Fundamentalism develops even faster with misery.

Ali Bongo Ondimba

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The bottom line is, there're a lot of conservatives that don't feel Donald Trump is conservative, right? Or, he's not their brand of conservatism... and there's a lot of people who don't have a seat on the inside who used to have a seat on the inside.

Sean Duffy

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Discussions of the economy, especially during times of crisis, are often framed in terms of lessons we supposedly learned during the Depression of the 1930s. If we are not to endure terrible times like those again, we are told, we must support whatever form of state intervention is currently being peddled.

Thomas Woods

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