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Annie Dillard, née le 30 avril 1945 à Pittsburgh en Pennsylvanie aux États-Unis, est une romancière, poétesse et essayiste américaine, titulaire du prix Pulitzer de l'essai en 1975 pour son essai Pèlerinage à Tinker Creek. Elle est surtout connue pour ses essais romancés . Wikipedia  

✵ 30. avril 1945  •  Autres noms アニー・ディラード, انی دیلارد
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“One of the few things I know about writing is this: spend it all, shoot it, play it, lose it, all, right away, every time… give it, give it all, give it now.”

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

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Source: " The Writing Life http://www.tikkun.org/mediagallery/download.php?mid=20090505114218282" (link is to PDF download), Tikkun magazine, Volume 3, Number 6, 1988

“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?”

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“Similarly, the impulse to keep to yourself what you have learned is not only shameful, it is destructive. Anything you do not give freely and abundantly becomes lost to you. You open your safe and find ashes.”

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Source: The Writing Life

“The answer must be, I think, that beauty and grace are performed whether or not we will or sense them. The least we can do is try to be there.”

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Annie Dillard livre Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

Source: Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

“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.”

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Source: Teaching a Stone to Talk: Expeditions and Encounters

“I come down to the water to cool my eyes. But everywhere I look I see fire; that which isn't flint is tinder, and the whole world sparks and flames.”

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“I had been my whole life a bell, and never knew it until at that moment I was lifted and struck.”

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Annie Dillard livre Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

Source: Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

“He is careful of what he reads, for that is what he will write. He is careful of what he learns, for that is what he will know.”

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Source: The Writing Life

“I think it would be well, and proper, and obedient, and pure, to grasp your one necessity and not let it go, to dangle from it limp wherever it takes you.”

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“I do not so much write a book as sit up with it, as a dying friend. I hold its hand and hope it will get better.”

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Source: The Writing Life

“You can't test courage cautiously, so I ran hard and waved my arms hard, happy.”

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Source: An American Childhood

“Why do we people in churches seem like cheerful, brainless tourists on a packaged tour of the Absolute?”

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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.”

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Annie Dillard livre The Living

Source: The Living

“Books swept me away, this way and that, one after the other; I made endless vows according to their lights for I believed them.”

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“Last forever!' Who hasn't prayed that prayer? You were lucky to get it in the first place. The present is a freely given canvas. That it is constantly being ripped apart and washed downstream goes without saying.”

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Annie Dillard livre Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

Source: Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

“We live in all we seek.”

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Source: For the Time Being

“We have not yet encountered any god who is as merciful as a man who flicks a beetle over on its feet.”

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Annie Dillard livre Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

Source: Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

“It has always been a happy thought to me that the creek runs on all night, new every minute, whether I wish it or know it or care, as a closed book on a shelf continues to whisper to itself its own inexhaustible tale.”

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Annie Dillard livre Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

Source: Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

“The real and proper question is: why is it beautiful?”

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Annie Dillard livre Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

Source: Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

“I am a fugitive and a vagabond, a sojourner seeking signs.”

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Annie Dillard livre Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

Source: Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

“It was less like seeing than like being for the first time seen, knocked breathless by a powerful glance.”

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Annie Dillard livre Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

Source: Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

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