Author: Annie Dillard

Quotes

Your work is to keep cranking the flywheel that turns the gears that spin the belt in the engine of belief that keeps you and your desk in midair.

Your work is to keep cranking the flywheel that turns the gears that spin the belt in the engine of belief that keeps you and your desk in midair.

- Annie Dillard

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.

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.

- Annie Dillard

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

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

- Annie Dillard

I'm a housewife: I spend far more time on housework than anything else.

I'm a housewife: I spend far more time on housework than anything else.

- Annie Dillard

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

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

- Annie Dillard

Just think: in all the clean, beautiful reaches of the solar system, our planet alone is a blot; our planet alone has death.

Just think: in all the clean, beautiful reaches of the solar system, our planet alone is a blot; our planet alone has death.

- Annie Dillard

You can't test courage cautiously.

You can't test courage cautiously.

- Annie Dillard

The surest sign of age is loneliness.

The surest sign of age is loneliness.

- Annie Dillard

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?'

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?'

- Annie Dillard

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