These are our few live seasons. Let us live them as purely as we can, in the present.
ANNIE DILLARDSpend the afternoon. You can’t take it with you.
More Annie Dillard Quotes
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Adverbs are a sign that you’ve used the wrong verb.
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The extravagant gesture is the very stuff of creation.
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No one escapes the wilderness on the way to the promised land.
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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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She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live.
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The life of sensation is the life of greed; it requires more and more. The life of the spirit requires less and less.
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Spend the afternoon. You can’t take it with you.
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The dedicated life is worth living. You must give with your whole heart.
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Nature is, above all, profligate.
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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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Write about winter in the summer.
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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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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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Art is like an ill-trained Labrador retriever that drags you out into traffic.
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The real and proper question is: why is it beautiful
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