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Pilgrim at Tinker Creek Quotes
10 of the best book quotes from Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
01
“The dark night into which the world was plunging was not a sleep but an awakening.”
Annie Dillard
author
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
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awakening
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darkness
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night
concepts
02
“Cruelty is a mystery, and the waste of pain.”
Annie Dillard
author
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
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pain
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cruelty
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mystery
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suffering
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waste
concepts
03
“It could be that God has not absconded but spread, as our vision and understanding of the universe have spread, to a fabric of spirit and sense so grand and subtle, so powerful in a new way, that we can only feel blindly of its hem.”
Annie Dillard
author
God
person
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
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growth
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vision
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understanding
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mysteries of the universe
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learning
concepts
04
“Time is the continuous loop, the snakeskin with scales endlessly overlapping without beginning or end.”
Annie Dillard
author
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
book
time
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infinite
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endless
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loops
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snakeskin
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scales
concepts
05
“The secret of seeing is, then, the pearl of great price.”
Annie Dillard
author
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
book
seeing
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the pearl of great price
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secrets
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value
concepts
06
“We’re played on like a pipe; our breath is not our own.”
Annie Dillard
author
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
book
to be played
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not our own
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breath
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pipes
concepts
07
“And we the people are so vulnerable. Our bodies are shot with mortality. Our legs are fear and our arms are time.”
Annie Dillard
author
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
book
mortality
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vulnerability
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bodies
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fear
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time
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arms
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legs
concepts
08
“It is the fixed that horrifies us, the fixed that assails us with the tremendous force of its mindlessness.”
Annie Dillard
author
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
book
perceptions
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mindless thinking
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narrow mindedness
concepts
09
“I bloom indoors like a forced forsythia; I come in to come out.”
Annie Dillard
author
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
book
growth
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bloom
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indoors
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comfort
concepts
10
“Beauty itself is the language to which we have no key.”
Annie Dillard
author
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
book
beauty
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language
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keys
concepts
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awakening
darkness
night
pain
cruelty
mystery
suffering
waste
growth
vision
understanding
mysteries of the universe
learning
time
infinite
endless
loops
snakeskin
scales
seeing
the pearl of great price
secrets
value
to be played
not our own
breath
pipes
mortality
vulnerability
bodies
fear
arms
legs
perceptions
mindless thinking
narrow mindedness
bloom
indoors
comfort
beauty
language
keys
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