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Annie Dillard es una autora estadounidense, mejor conocida por su prosa narrativa tanto en ficción como en no ficción. Ha publicado obras de poesía, ensayos, prosa y crítica literaria, así como dos novelas y una memoria. Su trabajo de 1974 Pilgrim at Tinker Creek ganó el Premio Pulitzer de 1975 por la no ficción general. Desde 1980 Dillard enseñó durante 21 años en el departamento de inglés de la Universidad Wesleyana, en Middletown, Connecticut. Wikipedia  

✵ 30. abril 1945  •  Otros nombres アニー・ディラード, انی دیلارد
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Annie Dillard: Frases en inglés

“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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Fuente: " 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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Fuente: 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 libro Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

Fuente: 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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Fuente: 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 libro Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

Fuente: 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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Fuente: 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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Fuente: The Writing Life

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

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Fuente: 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 libro The Living

Fuente: 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 libro Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

Fuente: Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

“We live in all we seek.”

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Fuente: 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 libro Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

Fuente: 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 libro Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

Fuente: Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

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

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Annie Dillard libro Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

Fuente: Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

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

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Annie Dillard libro Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

Fuente: 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 libro Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

Fuente: Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

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