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 think it would be well, and proper, and obedient, and pure, to grasp your one necessity and not let it go, to dangle from it limp wherever it takes you.
More Annie Dillard Quotes
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Every live thing is a survivor on a kind of extended emergency bivouac.
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The dedicated life is worth living. You must give with your whole heart.
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Our life is a faint tracing on the surface of mystery.
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Spend the afternoon. You can’t take it with 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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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 think it would be well, and proper, and obedient, and pure, to grasp your one necessity and not let it go, to dangle from it limp wherever it takes you.
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It was less like seeing than like being for the first time seen, knocked breathless by a powerful glance.
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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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Adverbs are a sign that you’ve used the wrong verb.
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The secret is not to write about what you love best, but about what you, alone, love at all.
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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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Mountains are giant, restful, absorbent. You can heave your spirit into a mountain and the mountain will keep it, folded, and not throw it back as some creeks will. The creeks are the world with all its stimulus and beauty; I live there. But the mountains are home.
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We live in all we seek.
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