Annie Dillard quote — “I had a head for religious ideas. They were the first ideas I ever enc…”

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I had a head for religious ideas. They were the first ideas I ever encountered. They made other ideas seem mean.... I had miles of Bible in memory: some perforce, but most by hap, like the words to songs. There was no corner of my brain where you couldn't find, among the files of clothing labels and heaps of rocks, among the swarms of protozoans and shelves of novels, whole tapes and snarls and reels of Bible.

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