You can’t test courage cautiously.
ANNIE DILLARDThe real and proper question is: why is it beautiful
More Annie Dillard Quotes
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Write about winter in the summer.
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Every live thing is a survivor on a kind of extended emergency bivouac.
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No one escapes the wilderness on the way to the promised land.
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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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There is no shortage of good days. It is good lives that are hard to come by.
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He is careful of what he reads, for that is what he will write. He is careful of what he learns, for that is what he will know.
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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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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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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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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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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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Our life is a faint tracing on the surface of mystery.
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Spend the afternoon. You can’t take it with you.
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Make connections; let rip; and dance where you can.
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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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