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You can read in the space of a coffin, and you can write in the space of a toolshed meant for mowers and spades.

Annie Dillard

You can read in the space of a coffin, and you can write in the space of a toolshed meant for mowers and spades.

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Beauty and grace are performed whether or not we will or sense them. The least we can do is try to be there.

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About Annie Dillard

Annie Dillard (née Doak; born April 30, 1945) is an American author, best known for her narrative prose in both fiction and non-fiction. She has published works of poetry, essays, prose, and literary criticism, as well as two novels and one memoir. Her 1974 book Pilgrim at Tinker Creek won the 1975 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction. From 1980, Dillard taught for 21 years in the English department of Wesleyan University, in Middletown, Connecticut.