Annie Dillard Quotes
As a life's work, I would remember everything - everything, against loss. I would go through life like a plankton net.
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Kids love to look at pictures of themselves.
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It's extraordinary what children put up with. I happened to see two of my uncles put my father up against the wall of my grandmother's house and knock his teeth out, because he'd been unpleasant to my mother. The next day I went upstairs and found my father making a rather half-hearted attempt to gas himself.
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I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.
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When my lady and I sit down and watch TV, I find she gets annoyed at characters because they don't do what she would do in the situation. I'm always like, 'Well, she has to do that because that's what the story is.'
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Denied anything ardently desired, the individual or state will argue and parley just so long - then, if the impelling motive be sufficiently great, will cast aside every rule and break down every acquired inhibition, plunging viciously after the object wished; all the more fantastically savage because of previous repression.
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Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble; in a statue the marble must be like flesh.
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I am more afraid of those who are terrified of the devil than I am of the devil himself.
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The greatest cunning is to have none at all.
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I know that I have to give testimony about all the things I lived, but I need time.
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In my early 20s, I didn't even know what the Groundlings was. I had no idea. But I know how to break down a script and work on the character.
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It has been an incredible honour and privilege to serve Ontarians as their premier.
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At present there is no distinction among the upper ten thousand of the city.
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For me, to just have my own shoe is unbelievable. As a kid, you see Jordans and wonder what that feels like to have your own shoe, and the fact that I have one is really surreal.
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I love the crowds at festivals because they're so chilled out.
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I used to be pretty reckless. When I was a runner for a production company, I drove a massive 16 seater van. I was only 18. I mean I look young now, but then I looked about 12.
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As it is, relationships are difficult, aren't they?
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When I am in Egypt, I am along for the ride - I am a privileged outsider, but an outsider nonetheless.
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I have not watched Glenn Beck. I don't watch him.
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What a pity human beings can't exchange problems. Everyone knows exactly how to solve the other fellow's.
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Leftist ideas are a part of the very atmosphere which American youth breathes.
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I like hip-hop music, but some of the lyrics make me want to cry.
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The old Lie:Dulce et decorum est Pro patria mori.
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I am a bit of a goody-goody. Not that there aren't times when I think, I was kind of an (ass) today. I work in a world in which people are really catered to; someone will come up to me and say, "Is it OK if this person's makeup is done before yours for the premiere?"
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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.
