Nature is, above all, profligate.
ANNIE DILLARDOne 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.
More Annie Dillard Quotes
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I do not so much write a book as sit up with it, as a dying friend. I hold its hand and hope it will get better.
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The extravagant gesture is the very stuff of creation.
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We live in all we seek.
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Spend the afternoon. You can’t take it with you.
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You search, you break your heart, your back, your brain, and then-and only then-it is handed to you.
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You can’t test courage cautiously.
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The answer must be, I think, that beauty and grace are performed whether or not we will or sense them. The least we can do is try to be there.
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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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The universe was not made in jest but in solemn incomprehensible earnest.
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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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Nothing moves a woman so deeply as the boyhood of the man she loves.
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Wherever we go, there seems to be only one business at hand – that of finding a workable compromise between the sublimity of our ideas and the absurdity of the fact of us.
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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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We are most deeply asleep at the switch when we fancy we control any switches at all.
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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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