These are our few live seasons. Let us live them as purely as we can, in the present.
ANNIE DILLARDWe are most deeply asleep at the switch when we fancy we control any switches at all.
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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Write about winter in the summer.
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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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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 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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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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We are most deeply asleep at the switch when we fancy we control any switches at all.
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You can’t test courage cautiously.
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Adverbs are a sign that you’ve used the wrong verb.
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Art is like an ill-trained Labrador retriever that drags you out into traffic.
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You search, you break your heart, your back, your brain, and then-and only then-it is handed to you.
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I wake expectant, hoping to see a new thing.
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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 answer must be, I think, that beauty and grace are performed whether or not we will or sense them. The least we can do is try to be there.
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