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We are here to abet creation and to witness to it, to notice each other's beautiful face and complex nature so that creation need not play to an empty house.

We are here to abet creation and to witness to it, to notice each other's beautiful face and complex nature so that creation need not play to an empty house.

Annie Dillard
Beautiful, Play, House

What is a house but a bigger skin, and a neighborhood map but the world's skin ever expanding?

Annie Dillard
House, Skins, World
Annie Dillard (2016). “An American Childhood”, p.45, Canongate Books

Let the grass die. I let almost all of my indoor plants die from neglect while I was writing the book. There are all kinds of ways to live. You can take your choice. You can keep a tidy house, and when St. Peter asks you what you did with your life, you can say, I kept a tidy house, I made my own cheese balls.

Annie Dillard
Book, Writing, House

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