Nature’s silence is its one remark, and every flake of world is a chip off that old mute and immutable block.
ANNIE DILLARDThe real and proper question is: why is it beautiful
More Annie Dillard Quotes
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We live in all we seek.
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The dedicated life is worth living. You must give with your whole heart.
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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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Write about winter in the summer.
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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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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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I had been my whole life a bell, and never knew it until at that moment I was lifted and struck.
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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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Adverbs are a sign that you’ve used the wrong verb.
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Spend the afternoon. You can’t take it with you.
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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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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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You can’t test courage cautiously.
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Our life is a faint tracing on the surface of mystery.
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