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Your work is to keep cranking the flywheel that turns the gears that spin the belt in the engine of belief that keeps you and your desk in midair.

Annie Dillard

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Annie Dillard
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: April 30
Author
Essayist
Novelist
Poet
University Teacher
Writer
Pittsburg
Pennsylvania
Annie Dillard Doak
Belief
Gears
Turns
Belt
Keep
Belts
Work
Engine
Desk
Desks
Cranking
Engines
Midair
Keeps
Spin

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