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Appealing workplaces are to be avoided. One wants a room with no view, so imagination can meet memory in the dark.

~Annie Dillard

Topics: Appealing Avoided Dark Imagination Meet Memory Room View Wants

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Every book has an intrinsic impossibility, which its writer discovers as soon as his first excitement dwindles.

~Annie Dillard

Topics: Book Discovers Every Excitement First His Impossibility Intrinsic Soon Which Writer

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As a life's work, I would remember everything - everything, against loss. I would go through life like a plankton net.

~Annie Dillard

Topics: Against Everything Go Life Like Loss Net Remember Through Work Would

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I would like to learn, or remember, how to live.

~Annie Dillard

Topics: How Learn Like Live Remember Would

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I woke in bits, like all children, piecemeal over the years. I discovered myself and the world, and forgot them, and discovered them again.

~Annie Dillard

Topics: Again Bits Children Discovered Forgot Like Myself Over Them Woke World Years

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There is a certain age at which a child looks at you in all earnestness and delivers a long, pleased speech in all the true inflections of spoken English, but with not one recognizable syllable.

~Annie Dillard

Topics: Age Certain Certain Age Child Earnestness English Long Looks Pleased Recognizable Speech Spoken Syllable True Which You

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People love pretty much the same things best. A writer looking for subjects inquires not after what he loves best, but after what he alone loves at all.

~Annie Dillard

Topics: After Alone Best He Looking Love Loves Much People Pretty Same Same Things Subjects Things Writer

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I noticed this process of waking, and predicted with terrifying logic that one of these years not far away I would be awake continuously and never slip back, and never be free of myself again.

~Annie Dillard

Topics: Again Awake Away Back Continuously Far Far Away Free Logic Myself Never Noticed Predicted Process Slip Terrifying Waking Would Years

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Aim for the chopping block. If you aim for the wood, you will have nothing. Aim past the wood, aim through the wood; aim for the chopping block.

~Annie Dillard

Topics: Aim Block Nothing Past Through Will Wood You

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The writer studies literature, not the world. He is careful of what he reads, for that is what he will write.

~Annie Dillard

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: April 30th, 1945

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