You search, you break your heart, your back, your brain, and then-and only then-it is handed to you.
ANNIE DILLARDWherever 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.
More Annie Dillard Quotes
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The extravagant gesture is the very stuff of creation.
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We are most deeply asleep at the switch when we fancy we control any switches 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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You can serve or you can sing, and wreck your heart in prayer, working the world’s hard work.
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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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Spend the afternoon. You can’t take it with you.
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I would like to learn, or remember, how to live.
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The universe was not made in jest but in solemn incomprehensible earnest.
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Nature is, above all, profligate.
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Art is like an ill-trained Labrador retriever that drags you out into traffic.
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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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She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live.
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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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Make connections; let rip; and dance where you can.
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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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