Make connections; let rip; and dance where you can.
ANNIE DILLARDThe real and proper question is: why is it beautiful
More Annie Dillard Quotes
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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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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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No one escapes the wilderness on the way to the promised land.
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I cannot cause light; the most I can do is try to put myself in the path of its beam. It is possible, in deep space, to sail on solar wind. Light, be it particle or wave, has force: you rig a giant sail and go. The secret of seeing is to sail on solar wind.
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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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It 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.
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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 sea pronounces something, over and over, in a hoarse whisper; I cannot quite make it out.
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I come down to the water to cool my eyes. But everywhere I look I see fire; that which isn’t flint is tinder, and the whole world sparks and flames.
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Art is like an ill-trained Labrador retriever that drags you out into traffic.
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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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There is no shortage of good days. It is good lives that are hard to come by.
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The real and proper question is: why is it beautiful
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Adverbs are a sign that you’ve used the wrong verb.
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The answer must be, I think, that beauty and grace are performed whether or not we will or sense them. The least we can do is try to be there.
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