The sea pronounces something, over and over, in a hoarse whisper; I cannot quite make it out.
ANNIE DILLARDNature is, above all, profligate.
More Annie Dillard Quotes
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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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Spend the afternoon. You can’t take it with you.
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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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How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. What we do with this hour, and that one, is what we are doing. A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days.
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Our life is a faint tracing on the surface of mystery.
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You can’t test courage cautiously.
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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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I wake expectant, hoping to see a new thing.
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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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I would like to learn, or remember, how to live.
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Every live thing is a survivor on a kind of extended emergency bivouac.
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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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Adverbs are a sign that you’ve used the wrong verb.
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We are most deeply asleep at the switch when we fancy we control any switches at all.
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Nothing moves a woman so deeply as the boyhood of the man she loves.
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