Annie Dillard Quotes

As A Child I Read Hoping To Learn Everything, So I Could Be Like My Father. I Hoped To Combine My Father's Grasp Of Information And Reasoning With My Mother's Will And Vitality. But The Books Were Leading Me Away. They Would Propel Me Right Out Of Pittsburgh Altogether, So I Could Fashion A Life Among Books Somewhere Else. So The Midwest Nourishes Us ... And Presents Us With The Spectacle Of A Land And A People Completed And Certain. And So We Run To Our Bedrooms And Read In A Fever, And Love The Big Hardwood Trees Outside The Windows, And The Terrible Midwest Summers, And The Terrible Midwest Winters, And The Forested River Valleys, With The Blue Appalachian Mountains To The East Of Us And The Broad Great Plains To The West. And So We Leave It Sorrowfully, Having Grown Strong And Restless By Opposing With All Our Will And Mind And Muscle Its Simple, Loving, Single Will For Us: That We Stay, That We Stay And Find A Place Among Its Familiar Possibilities.

Annie Dillard Quotes: As A Child I Read Hoping To Learn Everything, So I Could Be Like My Father. I Hoped To Combine

Annie Dillard Quotes: As A Child I Read Hoping To Learn Everything, So I Could Be Like My Father. I Hoped To Combine

Annie Dillard Quotes: As A Child I Read Hoping To Learn Everything, So I Could Be Like My Father. I Hoped To Combine

Annie Dillard Quotes: As A Child I Read Hoping To Learn Everything, So I Could Be Like My Father. I Hoped To Combine

Annie Dillard Quotes: As A Child I Read Hoping To Learn Everything, So I Could Be Like My Father. I Hoped To Combine

Annie Dillard Quotes: As A Child I Read Hoping To Learn Everything, So I Could Be Like My Father. I Hoped To Combine

Annie Dillard Quotes: As A Child I Read Hoping To Learn Everything, So I Could Be Like My Father. I Hoped To Combine

Annie Dillard Quotes: As A Child I Read Hoping To Learn Everything, So I Could Be Like My Father. I Hoped To Combine

Annie Dillard Quotes: As A Child I Read Hoping To Learn Everything, So I Could Be Like My Father. I Hoped To Combine

Annie Dillard Quotes: As A Child I Read Hoping To Learn Everything, So I Could Be Like My Father. I Hoped To Combine

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