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Private life, book life, took place where words met imagination without passing through the world.

Private life, book life, took place where words met imagination without passing through the world.
– Annie Dillard

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  2. Either a municipal bog is a private place or it isn’t. If it is a private place in which to shit, how is it not a private place in which to fellate? – Stephen Fry
  3. Nature’s silence is its one remark, and every flake of world is a chip off that old mute and immutable block. – Annie Dillard
  4. I set up and staged hundreds of ends-of-the-world and watched, enthralled, as they played themselves out. – Annie Dillard
  5. 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
  6. 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
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  8. 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
  9. 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
  10. I am a fugitive and a vagabond, a sojourner seeking signs. – Annie Dillard
  11. 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
  12. 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
  13. 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
  14. I would like to learn, or remember, how to live. – Annie Dillard
  15. The silence is not suppression; instead, it is all there is. – Annie Dillard
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  17. 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
  18. 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
  19. Now the thing is no longer a vision: it is paper. – Annie Dillard
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  21. Sometimes, I present myself as an expert and talk non-sense. To be honest, passing out hugs is far better than passing judgements. TRY THIS! – Saurabh Sharma
  22. By passing your GCSEs you prove that you’re not an idiot-¦ But by passing your A levels you prove that you’re smart – Ben Mitchell
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  24. Buy this book , buy this book , you need this book, buy book now.’Subliminal messaging works! – Nick Jimbanis
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  26. The sperm donor that impregnated my mother (with me), passed away. Please, stop sending me private messages of condolences. I never met the man. – Efrat Cybulkiewicz
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  28. My greatest fear is time wasted-”a life spent. My greatest fear is passing away from this world without leaving a lasting impact. – MJ Chrisman
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  30. If you have never met a woman that would never give up, then you have never met a woman that has seen miracles. – Shannon L Alder
  31. Have you ever met someone for the first time, but in your heart you feel as if you’ve met them before? – JoAnne Kenrick
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  33. I have a private theory, Sir, that there are no heroes and no monsters in this world. Only children should be allowed to use these words – Alfred de Vigny
  34. Share a book and you’ll make a friend! – Annie Lang
  35. I have an idea for a new book. It’s a novel about a beautiful yet sensitive author whose spirit is crushed by her domineering editor. Do you like it? – Annie Barrows
  36. You rock a sobbing child without wondering if today’s world is passing you by, because you know you hold tomorrow in your arms. – Neil A Maxwell
  37. There is no shadow without the sun.No suffering without divinity.No fear without love.No despair without desire.No hopelessness without faith. – Brownell Landrum
  38. All words, then, belonging to the inner world of the mind, are of the imagination, are originally poetic words. – George MacDonald
  39. A book is as private and consensual as sex. – Chuck Palahniuk
  40. Silence has its own language and in that silence he found words within himself; words for her, words for him and words for them. – Faraaz Kazi

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