Your work is to keep cranking the flywheel that turns the gears that s…

Annie Dillard
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Your work is to keep cranking the flywheel that turns the gears that spin the belt in the engine of belief that keeps you and your desk in midair. ✨ Annie Dillard (2009). The Writing Life, p.11, Harper Collins
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Your work is to keep cranking the flywheel that turns the gears that spin the belt in the engine of belief that keeps you and your desk in midair. ✨ Annie Dillard (2009). The Writing Life, p.11, Harper Collins

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