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.
ANNIE DILLARDAdverbs are a sign that you’ve used the wrong verb.
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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We live in all we seek.
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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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The sea pronounces something, over and over, in a hoarse whisper; I cannot quite make it out.
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You can’t test courage cautiously.
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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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I wake expectant, hoping to see a new thing.
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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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No one escapes the wilderness on the way to the promised land.
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Nature is, above all, profligate.
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There are no events but thoughts and the heart’s hard turning, the heart’s slow learning where to love and whom. The rest is merely gossip, and tales for other times.
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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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Spend the afternoon. You can’t take it with you.
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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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Write about winter in the summer.
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