There is no shortage of good days. It is good lives that are hard to come by.
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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The real and proper question is: why is it beautiful
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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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Art is like an ill-trained Labrador retriever that drags you out into traffic.
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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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She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live.
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I would like to learn, or remember, how to live.
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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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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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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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The extravagant gesture is the very stuff of creation.
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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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We are most deeply asleep at the switch when we fancy we control any switches at all.
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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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We live in all we seek.
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