The secret is not to write about what you love best, but about what you, alone, love at all.
ANNIE DILLARDCaring passionately about something isn’t against nature, and it isn’t against human nature. It’s what we’re here to do.
More Annie Dillard Quotes
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You can’t test courage cautiously.
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Experiencing the present purely is being empty and hollow; you catch grace as a man fills his cup under a waterfall.
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Art is like an ill-trained Labrador retriever that drags you out into traffic.
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The real and proper question is: why is it beautiful
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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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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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These are our few live seasons. Let us live them as purely as we can, in the present.
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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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The dedicated life is worth living. You must give with your whole heart.
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The life of sensation is the life of greed; it requires more and more. The life of the spirit requires less and less.
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Adverbs are a sign that you’ve used the wrong verb.
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The extravagant gesture is the very stuff of creation.
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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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We live in all we seek.
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I wake expectant, hoping to see a new thing.
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