It was less like seeing than like being for the first time seen, knocked breathless by a powerful glance.
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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Books swept me away, this way and that, one after the other; I made endless vows according to their lights for I believed them.
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Adverbs are a sign that you’ve used the wrong verb.
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You search, you break your heart, your back, your brain, and then-and only then-it is handed to you.
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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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She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live.
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The secret is not to write about what you love best, but about what you, alone, love at all.
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The universe was not made in jest but in solemn incomprehensible earnest.
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I do not so much write a book as sit up with it, as a dying friend. I hold its hand and hope it will get better.
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Spend the afternoon. You can’t take it with you.
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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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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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Our life is a faint tracing on the surface of mystery.
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We live in all we seek.
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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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Nature’s silence is its one remark, and every flake of world is a chip off that old mute and immutable block.
ANNIE DILLARD