I would like to learn, or remember, how to live.
ANNIE DILLARDEvery live thing is a survivor on a kind of extended emergency bivouac.
More Annie Dillard Quotes
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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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The answer must be, I think, that beauty and grace are performed whether or not we will or sense them. The least we can do is try to be there.
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We live in all we seek.
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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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What a hideout: Holiness lies spread and borne over the surface of time and stuff like color.
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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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You search, you break your heart, your back, your brain, and then-and only then-it is handed to you.
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Every live thing is a survivor on a kind of extended emergency bivouac.
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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 wake expectant, hoping to see a new thing.
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Nothing moves a woman so deeply as the boyhood of the man she loves.
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Nature is, above all, profligate.
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We have not yet encountered any god who is as merciful as a man who flicks a beetle over on its feet.
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Spend the afternoon. You can’t take it with you.
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She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live.
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