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The extravagant gesture is the very stuff of creation.

Annie Dillard

It has always been a happy thought to me that the creek runs on all night, new every minute, whether I wish it or know it or care, as a closed book on a shelf continues to whisper to itself its own inexhaustible tale.
ANNIE DILLARD

Book Happiness Literature Nature Night Reading Words
The sea pronounces something, over and over, in a hoarse whisper; I cannot quite make it out.
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Pronounce Quite Sea Whisper
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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Giving Lose Play Time Writing
No one escapes the wilderness on the way to the promised land.
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Escape Land Promise Wild
Adverbs are a sign that you’ve used the wrong verb.
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Use Writing Wrong
You can serve or you can sing, and wreck your heart in prayer, working the world’s hard work.
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Heart Prayer Serve Sing Work Hard World
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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Giving Lose Play Shoot Writing
She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live.
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Air Book Breathe Live Reading
You’ve got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down.
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Build Inspirational Jump Time Wings
The world knew you before you knew the world.
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Judgment World
What a hideout: Holiness lies spread and borne over the surface of time and stuff like color.
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Color Hide Holy Spread Surface
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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Block Flake Mute Nature Silence World
The extravagant gesture is the very stuff of creation.
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Creation Gesture Stuff
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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Awareness Break Up Dive Rise Sea Skin Time
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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Absurd Business Compromise Fact Finding Hands Ideas Work
I wake expectant, hoping to see a new thing.
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Hope Inspirational Positive Wake Up

The extravagant gesture is the very stuff of creation.

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