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

~Annie Dillard

Topics: Corresponding Energy Muscular Spiritual Sunlight Wind

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The notion of the infinite variety of detail and the multiplicity of forms is a pleasing one; in complexity are the fringes of beauty, and in variety are generosity and exuberance.

~Annie Dillard

Topics: Beauty Complexity Detail Exuberance Forms Generosity Infinite Multiplicity Notion Pleasing Variety

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The surest sign of age is loneliness.

~Annie Dillard

Topics: Age Loneliness Sign Surest

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The dedicated life is worth living. You must give with your whole heart.

~Annie Dillard

Topics: Dedicated Give Heart Life Living Must Whole Worth Worth Living You Your

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

~Annie Dillard

Topics: Anything Anything Else Else Far Housewife Housework More Spend Than Time

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

~Annie Dillard

Topics: Course Days How Lives Our Our Lives Spend

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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.

~Annie Dillard

Topics: Both Catching Chaos Days Defends Hands Labor Net Schedule Sections Stand Time Which Whim Worker

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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.

~Annie Dillard

Topics: Belief Belt Desk Engine Gears Keep Keeps Spin Turns Work You Your

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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.

~Annie Dillard

Topics: Alligator Barrel Blind Blinded Book Daring Feels Level Like Love Pilot Rearing Rolls Route Search Sensation Sentence Spinning Stem Stunt Turning Worst Wrestling Writing

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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.

~Annie Dillard

Topics: Absolute Added Arithmetic Even Flowers Geometry Grew Inside Like Maybe Obedience Only Perfect Plane Rock Spread Stones Understood

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: April 30th, 1945

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