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People love pretty much the same things best. A writer looking for

People love pretty much the same things best. A writer looking for subjects inquires not after what he loves best, but after what he alone loves at all. – Annie Dillard

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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. – Annie Dillard

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Imagination
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Annie Dillard
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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. – Annie Dillard

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Birthday
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There is a muscular energy in sunlight corresponding to the spiritual energy of wind. – Annie Dillard

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Light
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All conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone you leave them as they are. But you do not. If you leave a thing alone you leave it to a torrent of change. – Gilbert K. Chesterton

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alone

One definition of eternity is that we are not alone on this planet, that there are those whove gone before and those who will come, and that there is a community of spirits. – Rita Dove

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alone

The best part about being with a group is that you dont have to do everything alone. Youre with your friends. – Justin Timberlake

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alone

It felt like the first thing, but when I first started out, I got a job adapting a book by Russell Banks called Rule Of The Bone. I didnt do a very good job. I didnt really know what I was doing in general, let alone how to adapt a book. – Paul Thomas Anderson

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alone

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Japanese architecture is very much copied in this country and in Europe. – Minoru Yamasaki

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You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him. – Leo Aikman

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Well, I took a sabbatical. I walked away from shooting movies because I couldnt handle the travel. Im a single parent. I had young kids, and I found that keeping in touch with them from hotel rooms and airports wasnt working for me. So I stopped. – Rick Moranis

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Fall, temperatures, fall, fall! Let the weather mellow and the year fall into peacefulness. – Terri Guillemets

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