Famous Quotes by Annie Dillard, _Pilgrim at Tinker Creek_

Below are famous quotes by Annie Dillard, _Pilgrim at Tinker Creek_ - .

There is a certain age at which a child looks at you in all earnestness and delivers a long, pleased speech in all the true inflections of spoken English, but with not one recognizable syllable. There is no way you can tell the child that if language had been a melody, he had mastered it and done well, but that since it was in fact a sense, he had botched it utterly.

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