The sea pronounces something, over and over, in a hoarse whisper; I cannot quite make it out.
ANNIE DILLARDThe real and proper question is: why is it beautiful
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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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At a certain point, you say to the woods, to the sea, to the mountains, the world, Now I am ready. Now I will stop and be wholly attentive. You empty yourself and wait, listening.
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The real and proper question is: why is it beautiful
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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.
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Experiencing the present purely is being empty and hollow; you catch grace as a man fills his cup under a waterfall.
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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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Adverbs are a sign that you’ve used the wrong verb.
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Caring passionately about something isn’t against nature, and it isn’t against human nature. It’s what we’re here to do.
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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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The world knew you before you knew the world.
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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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Wherever we go, there seems to be only one business at hand – that of finding a workable compromise between the sublimity of our ideas and the absurdity of the fact of us.
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You can’t test courage cautiously.
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The universe was not made in jest but in solemn incomprehensible earnest.
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