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Annie Dillard Quotes about Time

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Spend the afternoon. You can't take it with you.

Spend the afternoon. You can't take it with you.

Annie Dillard
Inspirational, Inspiring, Time
Annie Dillard (2011). “Pilgrim at Tinker Creek”, p.274, Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd

Experiencing the present purely is being empty and hollow; you catch grace as a man fills his cup under a waterfall.

Annie Dillard
Inspirational, Life, Time

A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is a scaffolding on which a worker can stand and labor with both hands at sections of time.

Annie Dillard
Time, Hands, Schedules
"The Writing Life". Book by Annie Dillard, 1989.

The surest sign of age is loneliness.

Annie Dillard
Time, Loneliness, Age

Time is the continuous loop, the snakeskin with scales endlessly overlapping without beginning or end, or time is an ascending spiral if you will, like a child's toy Slinky.

Annie Dillard
Time, Children, Ascending
Annie Dillard (2011). “Pilgrim at Tinker Creek”, p.77, Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd

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