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At its best, the sensation of writing is that of any unmerited grace. It is handed to you, but only if you look for it. ↗

— Annie Dillard

#best #grace #handed #look #only

God gave me a talent to draw. I 'owed' it to him to develop the talent. ↗

— Annie Dillard

#draw #gave #god #him #i

Monarchs ought to put to death the authors and instigators of war, as their sworn enemies and as dangers to their states. ↗

— Elizabeth I

#dangers #death #monarchs #ought #put

The mind of the writer does indeed do something before it dies, and so does its owner, but I would be hard put to call it living. ↗

— Annie Dillard

#call #dies #does #hard #i

A bachelor is a guy who never made the same mistake once. ↗

— Phyllis Diller

#bachelor #guy #made #mistake #never

The only time I ever enjoyed ironing was the day I accidentally got gin in the steam iron. ↗

— Phyllis Diller

#accidentally #day #enjoyed #ever #gin

It's a good thing that beauty is only skin deep, or I'd be rotten to the core. ↗

— Phyllis Diller

#beauty #core #deep #good #good thing

You must realize that honorary degrees are given generally to people whose SAT scores were too low to get them into schools the regular way. As a matter of fact, it was my SAT scores that led me into my present vocation in life, comedy. ↗

— Neil Simon

#comedy #degrees #fact #generally #get

You learn the most from life's hardest knocks. ↗

— Conway Twitty

#knocks #learn #life #most #you

To attempt this would be like seeing without eyes or directing the gaze of knowledge behind one's own eye. Modern science can acknowledge no other than this epistemological stand-point. ↗

— Wilhelm Dilthey

#attempt #behind #directing #epistemological #eye