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"One of the main reasons that it is so easy to march men off to war," says Ernest Becker, is that "each of them feels sorry for the man next to him who will die."

Annie Dillard quotes | American Author. Won a Pulitzer prize for Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, 1975. b.1945

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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 quotes | American Author. Won a Pulitzer prize for Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, 1975. b.1945

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

Annie Dillard quotes | American Author. Won a Pulitzer prize for Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, 1975. b.1945

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As a life's work, I would remember everything - everything, against loss. I would go through life like a plankton net.

Annie Dillard quotes | American Author. Won a Pulitzer prize for Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, 1975. b.1945

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

Annie Dillard quotes | American Author. Won a Pulitzer prize for Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, 1975. b.1945

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

Annie Dillard quotes | American Author. Won a Pulitzer prize for Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, 1975. b.1945

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Cruelty is a mystery and a waste of pain

Annie Dillard quotes | American Author. Won a Pulitzer prize for Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, 1975. b.1945

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Crystals grew inside rock like arithmetic flowers. They lengthened and spread, added plane to plane in an awed and perfect obedience to an absolute geometry that even stones -- maybe only the stones -- understood.

Annie Dillard quotes | American Author. Won a Pulitzer prize for Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, 1975. b.1945

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dead and dying.

Annie Dillard quotes | American Author. Won a Pulitzer prize for Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, 1975. b.1945

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