Quotes by Annie Dillard, An American Childhood

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Those of us who read carried around with us like martyrs a secret knowledge, a secret joy and a secret hope: There is a — Annie Dillard, An American Childhood
Knowing you are alive is watching on every side your generation's short time falling away as fast as rivers drop through — Annie Dillard, An American Childhood
Private life, book life, took place where words met imagination without passing through the world. — Annie Dillard, An American Childhood
Father had stretched out his long legs and was tilting back in his chair. Mother sat with her knees crossed, in blue sla — Annie Dillard, An American Childhood
The interior life is often stupid. Its egoism blinds it and deafens it; its imagination spins out ignorant tales, fascin — Annie Dillard, An American Childhood
I had a head for religious ideas. They were the first ideas I ever encountered. They made other ideas seem mean....I had — Annie Dillard, An American Childhood
A child is asleep. Her private life unwinds inside skin and skull; only as she sheds childhood, first one decade and the — Annie Dillard, An American Childhood
For as long as I could remember, I had been transparent to myself, unselfconscious, learning, doing, most of every day. — Annie Dillard, An American Childhood
What can we make of the inexpressible joy of children? It is a kind of gratitude, I think—the gratitude of the ten-year- — Annie Dillard, An American Childhood
The interior life expands and fills; it approaches the edge of skin; it thickens with its own vivid story; it even begin — Annie Dillard, An American Childhood
The rock I'd seen in my life looked dull because in all ignorance I'd never thought to knock it open. People have cracke — Annie Dillard, An American Childhood
Outside the study hall the next fall, the fall of our senior year, the Nabisco plant baked sweet white bread twice a wee — Annie Dillard, An American Childhood
Evidently, a given object took no particular amount of time to draw; instead the artist took the time, or didn’t take it — Annie Dillard, An American Childhood