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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?'

~Annie Dillard

Topics: About Did Go Go To Hell God Hell Know Me Priest Sin Tell Then Why Would You

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Matters of taste are not, it turns out, moral issues.

~Annie Dillard

Topics: Issues Matters Moral Out Taste Turns

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Spend the afternoon. You can't take it with you.

~Annie Dillard

Topics: Afternoon Spend Take You

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As soon as beauty is sought not from religion and love, but for pleasure, it degrades the seeker.

~Annie Dillard

Topics: Beauty Love Pleasure Religion Seeker Soon Sought

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There is no shortage of good days. It is good lives that are hard to come by.

~Annie Dillard

Topics: Come Days Good Hard Lives Shortage

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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.

~Annie Dillard

Topics: All Religions Also Birthday Bitter Creator Creatures Divides Evolution Fellow Ironic One Thing Our Present Recognize Religions Self-Consciousness Separating The One Thing Thing Us Very

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Just think: in all the clean, beautiful reaches of the solar system, our planet alone is a blot; our planet alone has death.

~Annie Dillard

Topics: Alone Beautiful Blot Clean Death Just Our Our Planet Planet Solar Solar System System Think

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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?

~Annie Dillard

Topics: After Assume Audience Begin Case Consisting Could Die Dying Knew Patients Person Same Same Time Say Solely Soon Terminal Time Were Would Write Writing You

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There is no such thing as an artist - only the world, lit or unlit, as the world allows.

~Annie Dillard

Topics: Artist Lit Only Thing World

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You can't test courage cautiously.

~Annie Dillard

Topics: Courage Test You

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: April 30th, 1945

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