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Results of search for Author: Annie Dillard - Page 1 of 1
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There is a certain age at which a child looks at you in all earnestness and delivers a long, pleased speech in all the true inflections of spoken English, but with not one recognizable syllable. There is no way you can tell the child that if language had been a melody, he had mastered it and done well, but that since it was in fact a sense, he had botched it utterly.
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Annie Dillard, _Pilgrim at Tinker Creek_

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How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.
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Annie Dillard, "Winning Words" Compiled by Allen Klein Portland House, 1998
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