There are no events but thoughts and the heart’s hard turning, the heart’s slow learning where to love and whom. The rest is merely gossip, and tales for other times.
ANNIE DILLARDIt 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.
More Annie Dillard Quotes
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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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No one escapes the wilderness on the way to the promised land.
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What a hideout: Holiness lies spread and borne over the surface of time and stuff like color.
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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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Art is like an ill-trained Labrador retriever that drags you out into traffic.
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Make connections; let rip; and dance where you can.
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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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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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These are our few live seasons. Let us live them as purely as we can, in the present.
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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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Adverbs are a sign that you’ve used the wrong verb.
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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 was less like seeing than like being for the first time seen, knocked breathless by a powerful glance.
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The universe was not made in jest but in solemn incomprehensible earnest.
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Nothing moves a woman so deeply as the boyhood of the man she loves.
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