| How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. |
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- Annie Dillard |
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| Spend the afternoon. You can't take it with you. |
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- Annie Dillard |
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| An Inuit hunter 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." "Then why," asked the Inuit earnestly, "did you tell me?" |
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- Annie Dillard |
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| If you cultivate a healthy poverty and simplicity, so that finding a penny will literally make your day, then, since the world is in fact planted in pennies, you have with your poverty bought a lifetime of days. |
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- Annie Dillard |
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| There is a certain age at which a child looks at you in all earnestness and delivers a long, pleased speech in all the true inflections of spoken English, but with not one recognizable syllable. There is no way you can tell the child that if language had been a melody, he had mastered it and done well, but that since it was in fact a sense, he had botched it utterly. |
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- Annie Dillard |
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