Spend the afternoon. You can’t take it with you.
ANNIE DILLARDWrite about winter in the summer.
More Annie Dillard Quotes
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The dedicated life is worth living. You must give with your whole heart.
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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 real and proper question is: why is it beautiful
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The answer must be, I think, that beauty and grace are performed whether or not we will or sense them. The least we can do is try to be there.
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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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Nature is, above all, profligate.
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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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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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The sea pronounces something, over and over, in a hoarse whisper; I cannot quite make it out.
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She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live.
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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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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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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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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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