Quote #5

How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.

More from Annie Dillard

  1. Every book has an intrinsic impossibility, which its writer discovers as soon as his first excitement dwindles.
  2. It could be that our faithlessness is a cowering cowardice born of our very smallness, a massive failure of imagination... If we were to ju…
  3. Eskimo: 'If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to Hell?'
  4. So this was adolescence. Is this how the people around me had died on their feet - inevitably, helplessly? Perhaps their own selves eclipse…
  5. As soon as beauty is sought not from religion and love, but for pleasure, it degrades the seeker.
  6. The surest sign of age is loneliness.
  7. Appealing workplaces are to be avoided. One wants a room with no view, so imagination can meet memory in the dark. When I furnished this st…
  8. Why do people in churches seem like cheerful, brainless tourists on a packaged tour of the Absolute?

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