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Annie Dillard Quote: “This light-shouldered boy could jitterbug, old style, and would; he was more precious than gold, yea, than much fine gold. We jitterbugged... Only the strenth in our fingertips kept us alive. If they weakened or slipped, his fingertips or mine, we’d fall spinning backward across the length of the room and out through the glass French doors to the snowy terrace, and if we were any good we’d make sure we fell on the downbeat, snow or no snow.”

301. “This light-shouldered boy could jitterbug, old style, and would; he was more precious than gold, yea, than much fine gold. We jitterbugged... Only the strenth in our fingertips kept us alive. If they weakened or slipped, his fingertips or mine, we’d fall spinning backward across the length of the room and out through the glass French doors to the snowy terrace, and if we were any good we’d make sure we fell on the downbeat, snow or no snow.”

— Annie Dillard

Annie Dillard Quote: “I never saw a tree that was no tree in particular.”

302. “I never saw a tree that was no tree in particular.”

— Annie Dillard

Annie Dillard Quote: “Who would call a day spent reading a good day? But a life spent reading – that is a good life.”

303. “Who would call a day spent reading a good day? But a life spent reading – that is a good life.”

— Annie Dillard

Annie Dillard Quote: “They acted in only two small events – three, if love counts. Falling in love, like having a baby, rubs against the current of our lives: separation, loss, and death. That is the joy of them.”

304. “They acted in only two small events – three, if love counts. Falling in love, like having a baby, rubs against the current of our lives: separation, loss, and death. That is the joy of them.”

— Annie Dillard

Annie Dillard Quote: “Lou knew Deary slept in the dunes somewhere. She claimed to like the way starlight smelled on sand. Once Cornelius asked her how the smell of starlight on sand differed from the smell of moonlight. – More peppery.”

305. “Lou knew Deary slept in the dunes somewhere. She claimed to like the way starlight smelled on sand. Once Cornelius asked her how the smell of starlight on sand differed from the smell of moonlight. – More peppery.”

— Annie Dillard

Annie Dillard Quote: “But there is no one but us. There never has been. There have been generations which remembered, and generations which forgot; there has never been a generation of whole men and women who lived well for even one day. Yet some have imagined well, with honesty and art, the detail of such a life, and have described it with such grace, that we mistake vision for history, dream for description, and fancy that life has devolved.”

306. “But there is no one but us. There never has been. There have been generations which remembered, and generations which forgot; there has never been a generation of whole men and women who lived well for even one day. Yet some have imagined well, with honesty and art, the detail of such a life, and have described it with such grace, that we mistake vision for history, dream for description, and fancy that life has devolved.”

— Annie Dillard

Annie Dillard Quote: “The idea of a thing which a man framed for himself was always more real to him than the actual thing itself.”

307. “The idea of a thing which a man framed for himself was always more real to him than the actual thing itself.”

— Annie Dillard

Annie Dillard Quote: “Intricacy is that which is given from the beginning, the birthright, and in intricacy is the hardiness of complexity that ensures against the failure of all life. This is our heritage, the piebald landscape of our time. We walk around; we see a shred of the infinite possible combinations of an infinite variety of forms. Anything can happen; any pattern of speckles may appear in a world ceaselessly bawling with newness.”

308. “Intricacy is that which is given from the beginning, the birthright, and in intricacy is the hardiness of complexity that ensures against the failure of all life. This is our heritage, the piebald landscape of our time. We walk around; we see a shred of the infinite possible combinations of an infinite variety of forms. Anything can happen; any pattern of speckles may appear in a world ceaselessly bawling with newness.”

— Annie Dillard

Annie Dillard Quote: “There is only a little violence here and there in the language, at the corner where eternity clips time.”

309. “There is only a little violence here and there in the language, at the corner where eternity clips time.”

— Annie Dillard

Annie Dillard Quote: “Giacometti said, “The more I work, the more I see things differently, that is, everything gains in grandeur every day, becomes more and more unknown, more and more beautiful. The closer I come, the grander it is, the more remote it is.”

310. “Giacometti said, “The more I work, the more I see things differently, that is, everything gains in grandeur every day, becomes more and more unknown, more and more beautiful. The closer I come, the grander it is, the more remote it is.”

— Annie Dillard

Annie Dillard Quote: “We have not yet encountered any god who is as merciful as a man who flicks a beetle over on its feet.”

311. “We have not yet encountered any god who is as merciful as a man who flicks a beetle over on its feet.”

— Annie Dillard

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