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She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live. She read books as one would breathe ether, to sink in and die.

She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live. She read books as one would breathe ether, to sink in and die.
– Annie Dillard

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  1. She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live. – Annie Dillard
  2. She reads books as one would breathe air,to fill up and live. – Anne Dillard
  3. To start any thing is like to breathe in open air, to complete it is like to breathe in no air. – Murari Sharma
  4. You can read in the space of a coffin, and you can write in the space of a toolshed meant for mowers and spades. – Annie Dillard
  5. Books swept me away, this way and that, one after the other; I made endless vows according to their lights for I believed them. – Annie Dillard
  6. Read. Read. Read. Just don’t read one type of book. Read different books by various authors so that you develop different style. – RL Stine
  7. And tell them all about the books you’ve read. Better still, buy some more books and read them. That’s an order. You can never read too many books. – PB Kerr
  8. Writers: read books. Read good books. Read bad books. Learn what does and does not work. – Kira Hawke
  9. I would like to learn, or remember, how to live. – Annie Dillard
  10. Private life, book life, took place where words met imagination without passing through the world. – Annie Dillard
  11. I am a fugitive and a vagabond, a sojourner seeking signs. – Annie Dillard
  12. Beauty and grace are performed whether or not we will or sense them. The least we can do is try to be there. – Annie Dillard
  13. Nature’s silence is its one remark, and every flake of world is a chip off that old mute and immutable block. – Annie Dillard
  14. I set up and staged hundreds of ends-of-the-world and watched, enthralled, as they played themselves out. – Annie Dillard
  15. The answer must be, I think, that the beauty and grace are performed whether or not we will or sense them. The least we can do is try to be there. – Annie Dillard
  16. How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. What we do with this hour and with that one, is what we are doing. – Annie Dillard
  17. Appealing workplaces are to be avoided. One wants a room with no view, so imagination can meet memory in the dark. – Annie Dillard
  18. The silence is not suppression; instead, it is all there is. – Annie Dillard
  19. I smelled silt on the wind, turkey, laundry, leaves . . . my God what a world. There is no accounting for one second of it (267). – Annie Dillard
  20. On plenty of days the writer can write three or four pages, and on plenty of other days he concludes he must throw them away. – Annie Dillard
  21. The writing that so thrills and exhilarates you, as if you were dancing right next to the band, is barely audible to anyone else. – Annie Dillard
  22. Now the thing is no longer a vision: it is paper. – Annie Dillard
  23. I was still ringing. I had been my whole life a bell, and never knew it until at that moment I was lifted and struck. – Annie Dillard
  24. What folly takes light through ether to each eye from every horizon. – Scarlett Thomas
  25. Considering she’d just blown his gray matter into the ether, he was screwed. – Kelly Moran
  26. There were secrets there, the secrets of the ether all mankind is born from; of the blackness that holds our oldest memories captive. – Bryan Hall
  27. Running and chanting, the word change in the air like it’s something you can grab and put in your mouth and sink your teeth into. – NoViolet Bulawayo
  28. To breathe,to breathe is nothing more than confirmation of the existence of your soulwhether you believe it or not,whether you live or cease to fight – Alba Avila
  29. I’ll have enough books when they fill my room like the stars fill the sky. – EV Fairfall
  30. And of course I’m in the press all the time. So many books have been written about me; Into thin air, up in the air,Gone with the wind- – Rick Riordan
  31. And read-¦ read all the time-¦ read as a matter of principle, as a matter of self-respect. Read as a nourishing staple of life. – David McCullough Jr
  32. Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influence of the earth. – Henry David Thoreau
  33. Read books when you are free, read minds when you are’nt….but do read… – Rabindranath Tagore
  34. It was, in many ways, her dream bookshop. Not least because all the books had already been read.Books that had already been read were the best. – Katarina Bivald
  35. For peace read books, for success read books and take actions. – Amit Kalantri
  36. Accept to die before you live; you shall live free, then accept to live before you die, you shall have a beautiful life – Marcus L Lukusa
  37. To whom do books belong? The books we read and the books we write are both ours and not ours. They’re also theirs. – Pamela Paul
  38. Great leaders die empty. They live to offload everything they put in them! Don’t die with your books in your mind unpublished! – Israelmore Ayivor
  39. Breathe in, take what life hands you; hold it, accept it; breathe out, let it go. – Susan Gable
  40. We breathe in, we breathe out. We inhale and exhale the same molecules. We are natural recyclers of the same energy, whether or not we realize it. – Catherine Carrigan

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