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.
ANNIE DILLARDWherever 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.
More Annie Dillard Quotes
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I think it would be well, and proper, and obedient, and pure, to grasp your one necessity and not let it go, to dangle from it limp wherever it takes you.
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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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She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live.
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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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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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Our life is a faint tracing on the surface of mystery.
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There is no shortage of good days. It is good lives that are hard to come by.
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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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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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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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These are our few live seasons. Let us live them as purely as we can, in the present.
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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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It was less like seeing than like being for the first time seen, knocked breathless by a powerful glance.
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The world knew you before you knew the world.
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I wake expectant, hoping to see a new thing.
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