Every live thing is a survivor on a kind of extended emergency bivouac.
ANNIE DILLARD
Caring 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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Every live thing is a survivor on a kind of extended emergency bivouac.
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Write about winter in the summer.
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Nature is, above all, profligate.
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Our life is a faint tracing on the surface of mystery.
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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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We are most deeply asleep at the switch when we fancy we control any switches at all.
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You can’t test courage cautiously.
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Caring passionately about something isn’t against nature, and it isn’t against human nature. It’s what we’re here to do.
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We are here on the planet only once, and might as well get a feel for the place.
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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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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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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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I come down to the water to cool my eyes. But everywhere I look I see fire; that which isn’t flint is tinder, and the whole world sparks and flames.
ANNIE DILLARD