We are here on the planet only once, and might as well get a feel for the place.
ANNIE DILLARDYou can’t test courage cautiously.
More Annie Dillard Quotes
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Our life is a faint tracing on the surface of mystery.
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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 dedicated life is worth living. You must give with your whole heart.
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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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You search, you break your heart, your back, your brain, and then-and only then-it is handed to you.
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She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live.
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Make connections; let rip; and dance where you can.
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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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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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We are most deeply asleep at the switch when we fancy we control any switches at all.
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You can’t test courage cautiously.
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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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You do not have to sit outside in the dark. If, however, you want to look at the stars, you will find that darkness is necessary. But the stars neither require nor demand it.
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At a certain point, you say to the woods, to the sea, to the mountains, the world, Now I am ready. Now I will stop and be wholly attentive. You empty yourself and wait, listening.
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The extravagant gesture is the very stuff of creation.
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