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Private life, book life, took place where words met imagination without passing through the world.

Private life, book life, took place where words met imagination without passing through the world.

Annie Dillard
Book, Imagination, World
Annie Dillard (2016). “An American Childhood”, p.114, Canongate Books

It could be that our faithlessness is a cowering cowardice born of our very smallness, a massive failure of imagination... If we were to judge nature by common sense or likelihood, we wouldnt believe the world existed.

Annie Dillard
Believe, Imagination, Judging
Annie Dillard (2011). “Pilgrim at Tinker Creek”, p.146, Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd

What I sought in books was imagination. It was depth, depth of thought and feeling; some sort of extreme of subject matter; some nearness to death; some call to courage. I myself was getting wild; I wanted wildness, originality, genius, rapture, hope. ... What I sought in books was a world whose surfaces, whose people and events and days lived, actually matched the exaltation of the interior life. There you could live.

Annie Dillard
Book, Imagination, People
Annie Dillard (2016). “An American Childhood”, p.174, Canongate Books

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