Adverbs are a sign that you’ve used the wrong verb.
ANNIE DILLARDAdverbs are a sign that you’ve used the wrong verb.
More Annie Dillard Quotes
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People love pretty much the same things best. A writer looking for subjects inquires not after what he loves best, but after what he alone loves at all.
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Spend the afternoon. You can’t take it with 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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We are most deeply asleep at the switch when we fancy we control any switches 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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You can’t test courage cautiously.
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I come down to the water to cool my eyes. But everywhere I look I see fire; that which isn’t flint is tinder, and the whole world sparks and flames.
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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 world knew you before you knew the world.
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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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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 dedicated life is worth living. You must give with your whole heart.
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You can serve or you can sing, and wreck your heart in prayer, working the world’s hard work.
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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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What a hideout: Holiness lies spread and borne over the surface of time and stuff like color.
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