Adverbs are a sign that you’ve used the wrong verb.
ANNIE DILLARDThe life of sensation is the life of greed; it requires more and more. The life of the spirit requires less and less.
More Annie Dillard Quotes
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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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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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You can’t test courage cautiously.
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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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I wake expectant, hoping to see a new thing.
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The universe was not made in jest but in solemn incomprehensible earnest.
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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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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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Nature is, above all, profligate.
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No one escapes the wilderness on the way to the promised land.
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We live in all we seek.
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You do not have to sit outside in the dark. If, however, you want to look at the stars, you will find that darkness is necessary. But the stars neither require nor demand it.
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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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We are most deeply asleep at the switch when we fancy we control any switches at all.
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Every live thing is a survivor on a kind of extended emergency bivouac.
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