#anne dillard

[alchemisedsenlinyu]

3 body problem (2024-present) cr. david benioff, d.b. weiss, & alexander woo / teaching stone to talk, anne dillard

[lordebowie]

How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.

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[grubloved]

anne dillard, pilgrim at tinker creek & robin wall kimmerer, braiding sweetgrass

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[insidewarp]

She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live.

Anne Dillard

[dk-thrive]

May wipe you with its finger

In any instant the sacred may wipe you with its finger. In any instant the bush may flare, your feet may rise, or you may see a bunch of souls in trees.

- Annie Dillard, For the Time Being (Vintage, February 2000)

[boydbaeulieu]

I don’t mind living alone. I like eating alone and reading, I don’t mind sleeping alone. The only time I mind being alone is when something is funny, when I am laughing at something funny, I wish someone were around. Sometimes I think it is pretty funny that I sleep alone.

Anne Dillard, Transfiguration

[viecome]

¿Por qué leemos? Annie Dillard

¿Por qué leemos? Annie Dillard

¿Por qué leemos, si no es con la esperanza de poner al desnudo la belleza, de intensificar la vida, de sondear sus misterios más profundos? ¿Puede el escritor aislar y dotar de vida nueva a todas aquellas experiencias que más hondamente afectan a nuestro intelecto y nuestro corazón? ¿Por qué leemos, si no es con la esperanza de que el escritor magnifique y dramatice nuestros días, de que nos…

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[ivytwines]

“God does not demand that we give up our personal dignity, that we throw in our lot with random people, that we lose ourselves and turn from all that is not him. God needs nothing, asks nothing, and demands nothing, like the stars. It is a life with God which demands these things.

Experience has taught the race that if knowledge of God is the end, then these habits of life are not the means but the condition in which the means operates. You do not have to do these things; not at all. God does not, I regret to report, give a hoot. You do not have to do these things— unless you want to know God. They work on you, not on him.

You do not have to sit outside in the dark. If, however, you want to look at the stars, you will find that darkness is necessary. But the stars neither require nor demand it.”

— Anne Dillard, “An Expedition to the Pole” from Teaching a Stone to Talk