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“You can't test courage cautiously.”

Annie Dillard · Courage

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Annie Dillard

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

Imagination

Annie Dillard

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.

Birthday

Annie Dillard

There is a muscular energy in sunlight corresponding to the spiritual energy of wind.

Nature

Annie Dillard

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.

Loneliness