I had been my whole life a bell, and never knew it until at that moment I was lifted and struck.
ANNIE DILLARDI wake expectant, hoping to see a new thing.
More Annie Dillard Quotes
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The sea pronounces something, over and over, in a hoarse whisper; I cannot quite make it out.
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She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live.
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No one escapes the wilderness on the way to the promised land.
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I break up through the skin of awareness a thousand times a day, as dolphins burst through seas, and dive again, and rise, and dive.
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Write about winter in the summer.
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One of the few things I know about writing is this: spend it all, shoot it, play it, lose it, all, right away, every time…give it, give it all, give it now.
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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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Spend the afternoon. You can’t take it with you.
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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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Experiencing the present purely is being empty and hollow; you catch grace as a man fills his cup under a waterfall.
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I wake expectant, hoping to see a new thing.
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The world knew you before you knew the world.
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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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Art is like an ill-trained Labrador retriever that drags you out into traffic.
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These are our few live seasons. Let us live them as purely as we can, in the present.
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