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A fling of leafy motion on the cliffs, ... ANNIE DILLARD Yes, it’s tough, it’s tough, that goes without saying. But isn’t waiting itself and lo... ANNIE DILLARD ANNIE DILLARD ANNIE DILLARD ANNIE DILLARD ANNIE DILLARD ANNIE DILLARD ANNIE DILLARD ANNIE DILLARD ANNIE DILLARD ANNIE DILLARD ANNIE DILLARD ANNIE DILLARD ANNIE DILLARD ANNIE DILLARD ANNIE DILLARD ANNIE DILLARD ANNIE DILLARD ANNIE DILLARD ANNIE DILLARD ANNIE DILLARD There are some people in this world who can emotionally disconnect like a light switch. It’s like ... ANNIE WILLIAM DILLARD You can't test courage cautiously. ANNE DILLARD The best part about Genealogy is searching for ancestors and finding friends LAWRENCE DILLARD I think the jury did a darned good job. This man has no soul, no conscience. What else could we ask ... ROSEMARY DILLARD That man has no soul, no conscience. ROSEMARY DILLARD We couldn't have a better closing, for all of us, even those who don't believe in death penalty. 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DEAN DILLARD It looked like we had been bombed in a big war, the whole city was on fire everywhere. DEAN DILLARD Houses are just burned down that nobody could ever get to. Instantly, there were 15 or 20 houses on ... DEAN DILLARD He should be murdered, killed. I mean, this man has no remorse. ROSEMARY DILLARD Yes, I'm glad this part is over. I think the jury had a hard thing to do. I think the jury did a dar... ROSEMARY DILLARD The jury did a long, good job. ROSEMARY DILLARD Of those qualities on which civilization depends, next after courage, it seems to me, comes an open ... IRVING DILLARD It's just not effecting us paycheck wise, it's effecting us emotionally, we've been a family here. KATHLEEN DILLARD We give our heart and our soul for this company, we've given every thing a lot of people have been h... KATHLEEN DILLARD Productivity is just not so great right now because we are so sick at heart. 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It could be that our faithlessness is a cowering cowardice born of our very smallness, a massive fai... 
To believe that if we could but have this or that we would be happy is to suppress the realization t... 
Most of us think we're too busy or too important to rest for a day. 
I believe until fairly recently our destructions of nature were more or less unwitting -- the by-pro... 
That our world is so massive that it is completely out of our control, that we cannot possibly be as... 
We believe that preparation eradicates cowardice, which we define as the failure to act in the midst... 
The ocean is the lifeblood of our world. If we were to lose our fish that we appreciate so much by o... 
It is from a weakness and smallness of mind that men are opinionated; and we are very loath to belie... 
When we think back at our youth, we always remember the feeling of freedom... that you actually beli... 
In the twentieth century nothing can better cure the anthropocentrism that is the author of all our ... 
I am a man, and men are animals who tell stories. This is a gift from God, who spoke our species int... 
A very slight change in our habits is sufficient to destroy our sense of our daily reality, and the ... 
When I look at it carefully, by examining the interviews and the various social scientists’ studie... 
The world judge of men by their ability in their profession, and we judge of ourselves by the same t... 
I believe that evolution is a true account of nature, but I think we should try to escape it or tran... 
Whether we or our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and sh... 
If a process or adaptation seems too smart for nature, that's a failure of your imagination, not... 
See the world as it is, not as you wish it would be 
If we long for our planet to be important, there is something we can do about it. We make our world ... 
It is a lie. 
We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered... 
We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered... 
We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered... 
We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered... 
We are all humiliated by the sudden discovery of a fact which has existed very comfortably and perha... 
The answer isn't more time but a greater awareness of the time we have. 
We have another friend in common. Sweetest girl. She’s like a sane version of you. Goes by Annie. 
We believe we will be made whole by our accomplishments, our possessions, or our social status. It's... 
Isn't friendship amazing? At one time, our friends were just strangers to us. However, there was som... 
We must not become the new puritans and reject our society. We must address and master the future to... 
Whether we and our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and s... 
I think we are bound to, and by, nature. We may want to deny this connection and try to believe we c... 
Nobody is born with a style or a voice. We don't come out of the womb knowing who we are. In the beg... 
Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up our min... 
Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up our min... 
Scientists and philosophers tend to treat knowledge, imagination and love as if they were all very s... 
It is our American habit if we find the foundations of our educational structure unsatisfactory to a... 
True gentleness is founded on a sense of what we owe to him who made us and to the common nature whi... 
The truth is that we were born to have it all. And part of our handicap as adults is that we no long... 
We are not wrong, perhaps, to be heedful of justice in the midst of a universe that heeds not at all... 
We are prone to judge success by the index of our salaries or the size of our automobiles, rather ... 
If we judge ourselves only by our aspirations and everyone else only their conduct we shall soon rea... 
If we don’t manage to connect the dots anymore and the power of our imagination is creaking at the... 
They say that every snowflake is different. If that were true, how could the world go on? How could ... 
Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if na... 
As an actor, our very palette is one of imagination. So it is a walk onto an empty space and then im... 
We are sometimes depressed by our failure to convince people who strongly believe that we are that w... 
To reach only for that which pleasantly enchants you is the least of imagination, if even imaginatio... 
So you think that you're a failure, do you? Well, you probably are. What's wrong with that? In the f... 
We do not choose to be born...We do not--most of us, choose to die, or the times or conditions of ou... 
Now we cannot...discover our failure to keep God's law except by trying our very hardest (and then f... 
You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part. 
Are we fallen angels who didn't want to believe that nothing is nothing and so were born to lose our... 
There was still no likelihood that we could make a living from dance. We were doing it because we lo... 
Nothing that is worth doing can be achieved in our lifetime;
Buddhism notes that it is always a mistake to think your soul can go it alone. 
Every book has an intrinsic impossibility, which its writer discovers as soon as his first excitemen... 
Location, location, location. 
Socialism is the ideal state, but it can never be achieved while man is so selfish. 
You know, I would say that songwriting is something about the expression of the heart, the intellect... 
Most women are dissatisfied with their appearance - it's the stuff that fuels the beauty and fas... 
The general population still thinks HIV is something that came in the 80s and went away, or that it ... 
When I started working for Rolling Stone, I became very interested in journalism and thought maybe t... 
In a portrait, you have room to have a point of view and to be conceptual with a picture. The image ... 
You'd just be amazed what people will do. You really would. And not crazy people. Ostensibly nor...