The extravagant gesture is the very stuff of creation.
ANNIE DILLARDThe real and proper question is: why is it beautiful
More Annie Dillard Quotes
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I think it would be well, and proper, and obedient, and pure, to grasp your one necessity and not let it go, to dangle from it limp wherever it takes you.
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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 universe was not made in jest but in solemn incomprehensible earnest.
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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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There is no shortage of good days. It is good lives that are hard to come by.
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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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Books swept me away, this way and that, one after the other; I made endless vows according to their lights for I believed them.
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I would like to learn, or remember, how to live.
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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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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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She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live.
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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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I wake expectant, hoping to see a new thing.
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Our life is a faint tracing on the surface of mystery.
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Every live thing is a survivor on a kind of extended emergency bivouac.
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