She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live.
ANNIE DILLARDYou can’t test courage cautiously.
More Annie Dillard Quotes
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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 would like to learn, or remember, how to live.
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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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We are here on the planet only once, and might as well get a feel for the place.
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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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I break up through the skin of awareness a thousand times a day, as dolphins burst through seas, and dive again, and rise, and dive.
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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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These are our few live seasons. Let us live them as purely as we can, in the present.
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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 search, you break your heart, your back, your brain, and then-and only then-it is handed to you.
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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 dedicated life is worth living. You must give with your whole heart.
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I wake expectant, hoping to see a new thing.
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Write about winter in the summer.
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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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