Nothing moves a woman so deeply as the boyhood of the man she loves.
ANNIE DILLARDThere is no shortage of good days. It is good lives that are hard to come by.
More Annie Dillard Quotes
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I would like to learn, or remember, how to live.
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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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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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The extravagant gesture is the very stuff of creation.
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Every live thing is a survivor on a kind of extended emergency bivouac.
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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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We are here on the planet only once, and might as well get a feel for the place.
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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 live in all we seek.
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Art is like an ill-trained Labrador retriever that drags you out into traffic.
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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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What a hideout: Holiness lies spread and borne over the surface of time and stuff like color.
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Our life is a faint tracing on the surface of mystery.
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Adverbs are a sign that you’ve used the wrong verb.
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I break up through the skin of awareness a thousand times a day, as dolphins burst through seas, and dive again, and rise, and dive.
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