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I alternate between thinking of the planet as home - dear and familiar stone hearth and garden - and as a hard land of exile in which we are all sojourners.


Annie Dillard

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Stars flicker...
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I would no...
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There was nothing but uncompromising w...
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His first words to me— not a lie at a...
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And I was not a mouse.
I ...
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"Ah. The Suriel to...
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DAVID DUCHOVNY oh.
she heard it
too-no waters
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empty, sun
soundless- ...
BARBARA BLATNER I could simply
kill you now,
get it over with,
who would
know the difference...
BARBARA BLATNER ...gripping the
rim of the sink
you claw your
way to stand
and cling there, ...
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"You could try rubbing ...
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as small as a world and as large as alone.
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ANNIE LEIBOVITZ In a portrait, you have room to have a point of view and to be conceptual with a picture. The image ...
ANNIE LEIBOVITZ Theosophy tries to bridge the gulf between Buddhism and Christianity by pointing to the fundamental ...
ANNIE BESANT I was the illegitimate child of the legitimate theater. I had no training. I came from downtown rock...
ANNIE GOLDEN My issue with the state of women became incredibly stimulated when I was visiting developing countri...
ANNIE LENNOX I realized I couldn't be a journalist because I like to take a side, to have an opinion and a po...
ANNIE LEIBOVITZ The generous wish to share with all what is precious, to spread broadcast priceless truths, to shut ...
ANNIE BESANT Britons are good, though often brutal, colonists where they come into relations with entirely uncivi...
ANNIE BESANT I find it satisfying and intellectually stimulating to work with the intensity, brevity, balance and...
ANNIE PROULX All men die. You may say: 'Is that encouraging?' Surely yes, for when a man dies, his blunde...
ANNIE BESANT The destruction of India's village system was the greatest of England's blunders.
ANNIE BESANT Theosophy has no code of morals, being itself the embodiment of the highest morality; it presents to...
ANNIE BESANT Jeremiah is a most melancholy prophet. He wails from beginning to end; he is often childish, is rare...
ANNIE BESANT This Old Testament - containing error, folly, absurdity and immorality - is by English statute law d...
ANNIE BESANT I was a wife and mother, blameless in moral life, with a deep sense of duty and a proud self-respect...
ANNIE BESANT There are two kinds of artists left: those who endorse Pepsi and those who simply won t.
ANNIE LENNOX Never forget that life can only be nobly inspired and rightly lived if you take it bravely and galla...
ANNIE BESANT I fell in love with the darkroom, and that was part of being a photographer at the time. The darkroo...
ANNIE LEIBOVITZ Premonitions, presentiments, the sensing of unseen presences and many allied experiences are due to ...
ANNIE BESANT Sun-worship and pure forms of nature-worship were, in their day, noble religions, highly allegorical...
ANNIE BESANT I was perceiving myself as good as a man or equal to a man and as powerful and I wanted to look ambi...
ANNIE LENNOX You'd just be amazed what people will do. You really would. And not crazy people. Ostensibly nor...
ANNIE PARISSE I think human self-hatred may be the great untold story of the millennium. It's the common threa...
ANNIE GOTTLIEB I don't think feminism is about the exclusion of men but their inclusion... we must face and add...
ANNIE LENNOX The true basis of morality is utility; that is, the adaptation of our actions to the promotion of th...
ANNIE BESANT Better remain silent, better not even think, if you are not prepared to act.
ANNIE BESANT Everyone knows the beautiful story of Abraham and the sacrifice of Isaac. How this noble father led ...
ANNIE BESANT I have a reputation for being cold and aloof, but I'm so not that woman. I'm passionate. I l...
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