We live in all we seek.
ANNIE DILLARDThe dedicated life is worth living. You must give with your whole heart.
More Annie Dillard Quotes
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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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I would like to learn, or remember, how to live.
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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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She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live.
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Write about winter in the summer.
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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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Every live thing is a survivor on a kind of extended emergency bivouac.
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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 wake expectant, hoping to see a new thing.
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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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The dedicated life is worth living. You must give with your whole heart.
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Mountains are giant, restful, absorbent. You can heave your spirit into a mountain and the mountain will keep it, folded, and not throw it back as some creeks will. The creeks are the world with all its stimulus and beauty; I live there. But the mountains are home.
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The real and proper question is: why is it beautiful
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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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