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About Annie Dillard
American author
Annie Dillard is an American author known for narrative prose in fiction and nonfiction. She published poetry, essays, prose, literary criticism, two novels, and one memoir. Her 1974 book Pilgrim at Tinker Creek won the 1975 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction. From 1980, she taught for 21 years in the English department of Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut.
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More Religion quotes
- “Spiritual": religion without any rules. All the comfort of fictitious friends with none of their demands.”Stefan Molyneux
- “Soul is not even that Crackerjack prize that God and Satan scuffle over after the worms have all licked our b…”Tom Robbins
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God: more sayings
- “Every moment of life is like a sacrament in which we can receive God. It is a channel through which God speak…”Mother Angelica
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Books by Annie Dillard
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
1990
The writing life
1998
The Maytrees CD
2007
Teaching a Stone to Talk
1982
For the Time Being
1999