Books swept me away, this way and that, one after the other; I made endless vows according to their lights for I believed them.
ANNIE DILLARDOne 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.
More Annie Dillard Quotes
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She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live.
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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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No one escapes the wilderness on the way to the promised land.
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The dedicated life is worth living. You must give with your whole heart.
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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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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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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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You can serve or you can sing, and wreck your heart in prayer, working the world’s hard work.
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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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Write about winter in the summer.
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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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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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Every live thing is a survivor on a kind of extended emergency bivouac.
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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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We are here on the planet only once, and might as well get a feel for the place.
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