Write about winter in the summer.
ANNIE DILLARDThe dedicated life is worth living. You must give with your whole heart.
More Annie Dillard Quotes
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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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No one escapes the wilderness on the way to the promised land.
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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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You’ve got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down.
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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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Art is like an ill-trained Labrador retriever that drags you out into traffic.
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The world knew you before you knew the world.
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Our life is a faint tracing on the surface of mystery.
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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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Adverbs are a sign that you’ve used the wrong verb.
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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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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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People love pretty much the same things best. A writer looking for subjects inquires not after what he loves best, but after what he alone loves at all.
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I wake expectant, hoping to see a new thing.
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