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Quote by Annie Dillard
The sea pronounces something, over and over, in a hoarse whisper;

The sea pronounces something, over and over, in a hoarse whisper; I cannot quite make it out. – Annie Dillard

Other quotes by Annie Dillard

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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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

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Time
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Annie Dillard
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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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alone
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Other Quotes from
Water
category

The tides are in our veins. – Robinson Jeffers

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Water

Pure water is the world’s first and foremost medicine. – Slovakian Proverb

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Water

A lake carries you into recesses of feeling otherwise impenetrable. – William Wordsworth

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Water

The sea hath no king but God alone. – Dante Gabriel Rossetti, The White Ship

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Water

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They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. – Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759

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Its not that, you know, when a relationship doesnt work and there are issues, you have to somehow work it out if there are children involved. – Priscilla Presley

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Chaotic people often have chaotic lives, and I think they create that. But if you try and have an inner peace and a positive attitude, I think you attract that. – Imelda Staunton

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Ask five economists and youll get five different answers – six if one went to Harvard. – Edgar R. Fiedler

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