"Write about winter in the summer."

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Source : Annie Dillard (2016). “The Abundance”, p.82, Canongate Books

Annie Dillard

#Summer Quotes #Writing Quotes #Winter Quotes

“When I was six, I entered a talent contest. I dyed my hair blond, had a chainsaw and pretended I was Eminem. The old folk weren't expecting that.”
“Each man's soul is a menagerie where Conscience, the animal-tamer, lives with a collection of wild beasts.”
“Progressivism was a sister movement of fascism, and today's liberalism is the daughter of Progressivism.”

Source : Jonah Goldberg (2008). “Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left, From Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning”, p.2, Crown Forum
“To will nothing, then, is ..looking ..for that infinite virtuosity that always enters into the game and always runs off”

Source : Maurice Blondel, Oliva Blanchette (2004). “Action (1893): essay on a critique of life and a science of practice”, Univ of Notre Dame Pr
“Cause my wife gets up and goes shopping.”

Source : "The Tavis Smiley Show", June 14, 2004.
“I once undertook on behalf of a friend to smuggle a small dog through the customs. I was of ample proportions, and managed to conceal the little dog upon my person. All went well until my bosom barked.”
“You have to be insane to direct.”
“I don't like losing money. I don't go gamble. Because I don't want to lose any money. I didn't grow up with any money and I'm not going to go gamble and lose money.”

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