Nature’s silence is its one remark, and every flake of world is a chip off that old mute and immutable block.
ANNIE DILLARDIt has always been a happy thought to me that the creek runs on all night, new every minute, whether I wish it or know it or care, as a closed book on a shelf continues to whisper to itself its own inexhaustible tale.
More Annie Dillard Quotes
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No one escapes the wilderness on the way to the promised land.
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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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The extravagant gesture is the very stuff of creation.
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The universe was not made in jest but in solemn incomprehensible earnest.
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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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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 secret is not to write about what you love best, but about what you, alone, love at all.
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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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Every live thing is a survivor on a kind of extended emergency bivouac.
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The dedicated life is worth living. You must give with your whole heart.
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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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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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You search, you break your heart, your back, your brain, and then-and only then-it is handed to you.
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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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We are most deeply asleep at the switch when we fancy we control any switches at all.
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