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Make connections; let rip; and dance where you can.

Annie Dillard

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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Alone Inquire Love People Pretty Subject
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.
ANNIE DILLARD

Book Happiness Literature Nature Night Reading Words
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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Giving Lose Play Shoot Writing
I had been my whole life a bell, and never knew it until at that moment I was lifted and struck.
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Bell Experience Inspirational Life Lift Moments Struck
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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Inspirational Live Spend Time
The dedicated life is worth living. You must give with your whole heart.
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Dedicate Giving Heart Life Live Worth
Write about winter in the summer.
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Summer Winter Writing
The world knew you before you knew the world.
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Judgment World
The secret is not to write about what you love best, but about what you, alone, love at all.
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Alone Love Secret Writing
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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Awareness Break Up Dive Rise Sea Skin Time
I cannot cause light; the most I can do is try to put myself in the path of its beam. It is possible, in deep space, to sail on solar wind. Light, be it particle or wave, has force: you rig a giant sail and go. The secret of seeing is to sail on solar wind.
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Beam Cause Inspirational Light Myself Path Practice See Try Wave
We live in all we seek.
ANNIE DILLARD

Live One Liner Seek
Nature is, above all, profligate.
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Nature One Liner
Art is like an ill-trained Labrador retriever that drags you out into traffic.
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Art Traffic Traning
Every live thing is a survivor on a kind of extended emergency bivouac.
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Emergency Extend Kind Live Survival
It was less like seeing than like being for the first time seen, knocked breathless by a powerful glance.
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Breathe Glance Power See Time

Make connections; let rip; and dance where you can.

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