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The painter... does not fit the paints to the world. He most certainly does not fit the world to himself. He fits himself to the paint. The self is the servant who bears the paintbox and its inherited contents.

~Annie Dillard

Topics: Bears Certainly Contents Does Fit Fits He Himself Inherited Most Paint Painter Paints Self Servant Who World

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Write as if you were dying.

~Annie Dillard

Topics: Dying Were Write You

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Write about winter in the summer.

~Annie Dillard

Topics: About Summer Winter Write

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The writer studies literature, not the world.

~Annie Dillard

Topics: Literature Studies World Writer

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Our family was on the lunatic fringe. My mother was always completely irrepressible. My father made crowd noises into a microphone.

~Annie Dillard

Topics: Always Crowd Family Father Fringe Lunatic Made Microphone Mother Noises Our

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God gave me a talent to draw. I 'owed' it to him to develop the talent.

~Annie Dillard

Topics: Develop Draw Gave God Him Me Owed Talent

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The Pulitzer is more useful than meaningful.

~Annie Dillard

Topics: Meaningful More Pulitzer Than Useful

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When I teach, I preach. I thump the Bible. I exhort my students morally. I talk to them about the dedicated life.

~Annie Dillard

Topics: About Bible Dedicated Life Morally Preach Students Talk Teach Them

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Buddhism notes that it is always a mistake to think your soul can go it alone.

~Annie Dillard

Topics: Alone Always Buddhism Go Mistake Notes Soul Think Your

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According to Inuit culture in Greenland, a person possesses six or seven souls. The souls take the form of tiny people scattered throughout the body.

~Annie Dillard

Topics: According Body Culture Form Greenland People Person Possesses Scattered Seven Six Souls Take Throughout Tiny

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: April 30th, 1945

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