You search, you break your heart, your back, your brain, and then-and only then-it is handed to you.
ANNIE DILLARDI 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.
More Annie Dillard Quotes
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You can serve or you can sing, and wreck your heart in prayer, working the world’s hard work.
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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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You’ve got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down.
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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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I think it would be well, and proper, and obedient, and pure, to grasp your one necessity and not let it go, to dangle from it limp wherever it takes you.
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Nothing moves a woman so deeply as the boyhood of the man she loves.
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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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Our life is a faint tracing on the surface of mystery.
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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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Make connections; let rip; and dance where you can.
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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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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.
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The dedicated life is worth living. You must give with your whole heart.
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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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You can’t test courage cautiously.
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