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.
ANNIE DILLARDThe dedicated life is worth living. You must give with your whole heart.
More Annie Dillard Quotes
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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 have not yet encountered any god who is as merciful as a man who flicks a beetle over on its feet.
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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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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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Every live thing is a survivor on a kind of extended emergency bivouac.
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There is no shortage of good days. It is good lives that are hard to come by.
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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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Our life is a faint tracing on the surface of mystery.
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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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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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Books swept me away, this way and that, one after the other; I made endless vows according to their lights for I believed them.
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How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. What we do with this hour, and that one, is what we are doing. A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days.
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I would like to learn, or remember, how to live.
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I think it would be well, and proper, and obedient, and pure, to grasp your one necessity and not let it go, to dangle from it limp wherever it takes you.
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The universe was not made in jest but in solemn incomprehensible earnest.
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