Great Throughts Treasury
This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Annie Dillard
Pulitzer Prize-winning American Author, Novelist, Poet, Essayist, Literary Critic
"Spend the afternoon. You can’t take it with you."
"I read about an Eskimo hunter who asked the local missionary priest, “If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell?” “No,” said the priest, “not if you did not know.” “Then why,” asked the Eskimo earnestly, “did you tell me?”"
"How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives."