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Annie Dillard 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 work Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek is a 1974 nonfiction narrative book by American author Annie Dillard. It won the Pulitzer Prize in 1975, and has continued to receive acclaim from both critics and writers. In 1999 it was listed in Modern Library' 100 Best Nonfiction Books.The book is about Dillard's...

won the 1974 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction. Dillard taught for 21 years in the English department of Wesleyan University

Wesleyan University

Wesleyan University is a private liberal arts college founded in 1831 and located in Middletown, Connecticut. According to the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, Wesleyan is the only Baccalaureate College in the nation that emphasizes undergraduate instruction in the arts and...

, in Middletown, Connecticut

Middletown, Connecticut

Middletown is a city located in Middlesex County, Connecticut, along the Connecticut River, in the central part of the state, 16 miles south of Hartford. In 1650, it was incorporated as a town under its original Indian name, Mattabeseck. It received its present name in 1653. In 1784, the central...

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Annie Dillard was the oldest of three daughters in her family.

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As soon as beauty is sought not from religion and love, but for pleasure, it degrades the seeker.

Every book has an intrinsic impossibility, which its writer discovers as soon as his first excitement dwindles.

How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.

It could be that our faithlessness is a cowering cowardice born of our very smallness, a massive failure of imagination... If we were to judge nature by common sense or likelihood, we wouldn't believe the world existed.

The surest sign of age is loneliness.

Why do people in churches seem like cheerful, brainless tourists on a packaged tour of the Absolute?

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