The sea pronounces something, over and over, in a hoarse whisper; I cannot quite make it out.
ANNIE DILLARDWrite about winter in the summer.
More Annie Dillard Quotes
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Nature is, above all, profligate.
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The dedicated life is worth living. You must give with your whole heart.
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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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We are here on the planet only once, and might as well get a feel for the place.
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It has always been a happy thought to me that the creek runs on all night, new every minute, whether I wish it or know it or care, as a closed book on a shelf continues to whisper to itself its own inexhaustible tale.
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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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Make connections; let rip; and dance where you can.
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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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We live in all we seek.
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Adverbs are a sign that you’ve used the wrong verb.
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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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These are our few live seasons. Let us live them as purely as we can, in the present.
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Experiencing the present purely is being empty and hollow; you catch grace as a man fills his cup under a waterfall.
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I would like to learn, or remember, how to live.
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We have not yet encountered any god who is as merciful as a man who flicks a beetle over on its feet.
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