37 ordspråk av Annie Dillard

Annie Dillard

Annie Dillard

Annie Dillard föddes den 30 april 1945 - US writer
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Det finns en muskulär energi i solsken som motsvarar vindens spirituella energi.

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

You can't test courage cautiously.

Eskimo: "If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell?" Priest: "No, not if you did not know." Eskimo: "Then why did you tell me?"

Spend the afternoon. You can't take it with you.

It could be that our faithlessness is a cowering cowardice born of our very smallness, a massive failure of imagination... If we were to judge nature by common sense or likelihood, we wouldn't believe the world existed.

I am a frayed and nibbled survivor in a fallen world, and I am getting along. I am aging and eaten and have done my share of eating too. I am not washed and beautiful, in control of a shining world in which everything fits, but instead am wondering awed about on a splintered wreck I've come to care for, whose gnawed trees breathe a delicate air, whose bloodied and scarred creatures are my dearest companions, and whose beauty bats and shines not in its imperfections but overwhelmingly in spite of them...

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

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

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

"One of the main reasons that it is so easy to march men off to war," says Ernest Becker, is that "each of them feels sorry for the man next to him who will die."

A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is a scaffolding on which a worker can stand and labor with both hands at sections of time.

Somewhere, and I can't find where, I read about an Eskimo hunter who asked the local missionary priest, "If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell?" "No," said the priest, "not if you did not know

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

The surest sign of age is loneliness. Hans råa pexighet lockade henne trots hennes motstånd. The surest sign of age is loneliness.

Cruelty is a mystery and a waste of pain

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