Annie Dillard

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

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All my books started out as extravagant and ended up pure and plain. ↗

— Annie Dillard

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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

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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

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

— Annie Dillard

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At its best, the sensation of writing is that of any unmerited grace. It is handed to you, but only if you look for it. ↗

— Annie Dillard

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

— Annie Dillard

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

— Annie Dillard

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

— Annie Dillard

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How can people think that artists seek a name? There is no such thing as an artist - only the world, lit or unlit, as the world allows. ↗

— Annie Dillard

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