Write about winter in the summer.
ANNIE DILLARDThe sea pronounces something, over and over, in a hoarse whisper; I cannot quite make it out.
More Annie Dillard Quotes
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Make connections; let rip; and dance where you can.
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Nothing moves a woman so deeply as the boyhood of the man she loves.
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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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Nature is, above all, profligate.
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I would like to learn, or remember, how to live.
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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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The secret is not to write about what you love best, but about what you, alone, love at all.
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I cannot cause light; the most I can do is try to put myself in the path of its beam. It is possible, in deep space, to sail on solar wind. Light, be it particle or wave, has force: you rig a giant sail and go. The secret of seeing is to sail on solar wind.
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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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It was less like seeing than like being for the first time seen, knocked breathless by a powerful glance.
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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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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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Art is like an ill-trained Labrador retriever that drags you out into traffic.
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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 world knew you before you knew the world.
ANNIE DILLARD






