He is careful of what he reads, for that is what he will write. He is careful of what he learns, for that is what he will know.
Annie DillardUnless all ages and races of men have been deluded by the same mass hypnotist (who?), there seems to be such a thing as beauty, a grace wholly gratuitous.
Annie DillardBy dipping us children in the Bible so often, they hoped, I think, to give our lives a serious tint, and to provide us with quaintly magnificent snatches of prayer to produce as charms while, say, being mugged for our cash or jewels.
Annie DillardEvery book has an intrinsic impossibility, which its writer discovers as soon as his first excitement dwindles.
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