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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 wouldnt believe the world existed.

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
Imagination
Smallness
Common
Likelihood
Born
Cowardice
Sense
Existed
Nature
Massive
Believe
Judge
World
Judging
Faithlessness
Failure
Cowering

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