Art is like an ill-trained Labrador retriever that drags you out into traffic.
ANNIE DILLARDWrite about winter in the summer.
More Annie Dillard Quotes
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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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Adverbs are a sign that you’ve used the wrong verb.
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It was less like seeing than like being for the first time seen, knocked breathless by a powerful glance.
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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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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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Spend the afternoon. You can’t take it with you.
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Wherever we go, there seems to be only one business at hand – that of finding a workable compromise between the sublimity of our ideas and the absurdity of the fact of us.
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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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You can’t test courage cautiously.
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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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I would like to learn, or remember, how to live.
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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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The secret is not to write about what you love best, but about what you, alone, love at all.
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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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Nature is, above all, profligate.
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