The sea pronounces something, over and over, in a hoarse whisper; I cannot quite make it out.
ANNIE DILLARDMake connections; let rip; and dance where you can.
More Annie Dillard Quotes
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No one escapes the wilderness on the way to the promised land.
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I wake expectant, hoping to see a new thing.
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The secret is not to write about what you love best, but about what you, alone, love at all.
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He is careful of what he reads, for that is what he will write. He is careful of what he learns, for that is what he will know.
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I would like to learn, or remember, how to live.
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The extravagant gesture is the very stuff of creation.
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Spend the afternoon. You can’t take it with you.
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You’ve got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down.
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How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. What we do with this hour, and that one, is what we are doing. A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days.
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The real and proper question is: why is it beautiful
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What a hideout: Holiness lies spread and borne over the surface of time and stuff like color.
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We are here on the planet only once, and might as well get a feel for the place.
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It has always been a happy thought to me that the creek runs on all night, new every minute, whether I wish it or know it or care, as a closed book on a shelf continues to whisper to itself its own inexhaustible tale.
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Caring passionately about something isn’t against nature, and it isn’t against human nature. It’s what we’re here to do.
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Books swept me away, this way and that, one after the other; I made endless vows according to their lights for I believed them.
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