The extravagant gesture is the very stuff of creation.
ANNIE DILLARD
Experiencing the present purely is being empty and hollow; you catch grace as a man fills his cup under a waterfall.
More Annie Dillard Quotes
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The extravagant gesture is the very stuff of creation.
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She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live.
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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.
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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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Art is like an ill-trained Labrador retriever that drags you out into traffic.
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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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What a hideout: Holiness lies spread and borne over the surface of time and stuff like color.
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Nature is, above all, profligate.
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I would like to learn, or remember, how to live.
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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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He is careful of what he reads, for that is what he will write. He is careful of what he learns, for that is what he will know.
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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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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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