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“How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.”
“How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.”
— ANNIE DILLARD
Author · born 1945
American author whose Pilgrim at Tinker Creek (1974) won the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction. Her prose is noted for its intense observation of the natural world and its spiritual questioning.
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