The dedicated life is worth living. You must give with your whole heart.
ANNIE DILLARDYou 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.
More Annie Dillard Quotes
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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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Art is like an ill-trained Labrador retriever that drags you out into traffic.
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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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Our life is a faint tracing on the surface of mystery.
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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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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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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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The world knew you before you knew the world.
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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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You’ve got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down.
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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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You can serve or you can sing, and wreck your heart in prayer, working the world’s hard work.
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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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Write about winter in the summer.
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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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