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Annie Dillard

"Aim for the chopping block. If you aim for the wood, you will have nothing. Aim past the wood, aim through the wood; aim for the chopping block."

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"Aim for the chopping block. If you aim for the wood, you will have nothing. Aim past the wood, aim through the wood; aim for the chopping block."

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Donna Grant

"Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours."

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Donna Grant

"Since philosophy now criticizes everything it comes across, a critique of philosophy would be nothing less than a just reprisal."

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Donna Grant

"There is nothing so difficult to marry as a large nose."

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Donna Grant

"Even if you have nothing to write, write and say so."

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Donna Grant

"Nothing is so unbelievable that oratory cannot make it acceptable."

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Donna Grant

"Nothing like a little judicious levity."

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Donna Grant

"Nothing is easy to the unwilling."

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Donna Grant

"The world is all a carcass and vanity, The shadow of a shadow, a play And in one word, just nothing."

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Donna Grant

"Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know."

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Donna Grant

"Nothing can come of nothing."

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

Writing

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Annie Dillard
"The feeling that the work is magnificent, and the feeling that it is abominable, are both mosquitoes to be repelled, ignored, or killed, but not indulged."

Art

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Annie Dillard
"You can't test courage cautiously."

Courage

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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."

Society

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Annie Dillard
"I woke in bits, like all children, piecemeal over the years. I discovered myself and the world, and forgot them, and discovered them again."

Family

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Annie Dillard
"She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live."

Knowledge

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Annie Dillard
"The most demanding part of living a lifetime as an artist is the strict discipline of forcing oneself to work steadfastly along the nerve of one's own most intimate sensitivity."

Discipline

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Annie Dillard
"Love so sprang at her, she honestly thought no one had ever looked into it. Where was it in literature? Someone would have written something. She must not have recognized it. Time to read everything again."

Love

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Annie Dillard
"In the deeps are the violence and terror of which psychology has warned us. But if you ride these monsters deeper down, if you drop with them farther over the world's rim, you find what our sciences cannot locate or name, the substrate, the ocean or matrix or ether which buoys the rest, which gives goodness its power for good, and evil its power for evil, the unified field: our complex and inexplicable caring for each other, and for our life together here. This is given. It is not learned."

Philosophy

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Annie Dillard
"The writer studies literature, not the world. He is careful of what he reads, for that is what he will write."

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