The world knew you before you knew the world.
ANNIE DILLARDOne 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.
More Annie Dillard Quotes
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The life of sensation is the life of greed; it requires more and more. The life of the spirit requires less and less.
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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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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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It was less like seeing than like being for the first time seen, knocked breathless by a powerful glance.
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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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Every live thing is a survivor on a kind of extended emergency bivouac.
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Nothing moves a woman so deeply as the boyhood of the man she loves.
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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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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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The dedicated life is worth living. You must give with your whole heart.
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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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At a certain point, you say to the woods, to the sea, to the mountains, the world, Now I am ready. Now I will stop and be wholly attentive. You empty yourself and wait, listening.
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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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Nature’s silence is its one remark, and every flake of world is a chip off that old mute and immutable block.
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Spend the afternoon. You can’t take it with you.
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