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.
ANNIE DILLARDNo one escapes the wilderness on the way to the promised land.
More Annie Dillard Quotes
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We are most deeply asleep at the switch when we fancy we control any switches at all.
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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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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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She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live.
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Every live thing is a survivor on a kind of extended emergency bivouac.
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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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Nature is, above all, profligate.
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The universe was not made in jest but in solemn incomprehensible earnest.
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Nature’s silence is its one remark, and every flake of world is a chip off that old mute and immutable block.
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Write about winter in the summer.
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There are no events but thoughts and the heart’s hard turning, the heart’s slow learning where to love and whom. The rest is merely gossip, and tales for other times.
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The life of sensation is the life of greed; it requires more and more. The life of the spirit requires less and less.
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Mountains are giant, restful, absorbent. You can heave your spirit into a mountain and the mountain will keep it, folded, and not throw it back as some creeks will. The creeks are the world with all its stimulus and beauty; I live there. But the mountains are home.
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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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The world knew you before you knew the world.
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