The extravagant gesture is the very stuff of creation.
ANNIE DILLARDMake connections; let rip; and dance where you can.
More Annie Dillard Quotes
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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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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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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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The universe was not made in jest but in solemn incomprehensible earnest.
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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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These are our few live seasons. Let us live them as purely as we can, in the present.
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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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The real and proper question is: why is it beautiful
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Books swept me away, this way and that, one after the other; I made endless vows according to their lights for I believed them.
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You can’t test courage cautiously.
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The dedicated life is worth living. You must give with your whole heart.
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Write about winter in the summer.
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There is no shortage of good days. It is good lives that are hard to come by.
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