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.
ANNIE DILLARDI break up through the skin of awareness a thousand times a day, as dolphins burst through seas, and dive again, and rise, and dive.
More Annie Dillard Quotes
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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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The real and proper question is: why is it beautiful
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No one escapes the wilderness on the way to the promised land.
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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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You search, you break your heart, your back, your brain, and then-and only then-it is handed to you.
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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 dedicated life is worth living. You must give with your whole heart.
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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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The sea pronounces something, over and over, in a hoarse whisper; I cannot quite make it out.
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Nature is, above all, profligate.
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Art is like an ill-trained Labrador retriever that drags you out into traffic.
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I would like to learn, or remember, how to live.
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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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Nothing moves a woman so deeply as the boyhood of the man she loves.
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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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