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Appealing workplaces are to be avoided. One wants a room with no view, so imagination can meet memory in the dark.

Appealing workplaces are to be avoided. One wants a room with no view, so imagination can meet memory in the dark.

Annie Dillard
Memories, Work, Writing

I sip my coffee. I look at the mountain, which is still doing its tricks, as you look at a still-beautiful face belonging to a person who was once your lover in another country years ago: with fond nostalgia, and recognition, but no real feelings save a secret astonishment that you are now strangers. Thanks. For the memories. It is ironic that the one thing that all religions recognize as separating us from our creator--our very self-consciousness--is also the one thing that divides us from our fellow creatures. It was a bitter birthday present from evolution, cutting us off at both ends.

Annie Dillard
Beautiful, Country, Memories
Annie Dillard (2011). “Pilgrim at Tinker Creek”, p.80, Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd

Writers serve as the memory of a people. They chew over our public past.

Annie Dillard
Memories, Writing, Past
Annie Dillard, Robert Atwan (1988). “The Best American Essays”

Old memories are very easy to get except that once you write about something you've destroyed it.

Annie Dillard
Memories, Writing, Easy
"Author Interview: Annie Dillard, Author of 'The Abundance'". Interview with Melissa Block, www.npr.org. March 12, 2016.

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