The sea pronounces something, over and over, in a hoarse whisper; I cannot quite make it out.
ANNIE DILLARDWe live in all we seek.
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 break up through the skin of awareness a thousand times a day, as dolphins burst through seas, and dive again, and rise, and dive.
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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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Write about winter in the summer.
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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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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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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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Spend the afternoon. You can’t take it with you.
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Nothing moves a woman so deeply as the boyhood of the man she loves.
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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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The universe was not made in jest but in solemn incomprehensible earnest.
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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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We are most deeply asleep at the switch when we fancy we control any switches 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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