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I would like to learn, or remember, how to live.

Annie Dillard

We are here on the planet only once, and might as well get a feel for the place.
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Feeling Place Planet Travel
Art is like an ill-trained Labrador retriever that drags you out into traffic.
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Art Traffic Traning
Make connections; let rip; and dance where you can.
ANNIE DILLARD

Connection Dance Enjoyment Life
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.
ANNIE DILLARD

Beam Cause Inspirational Light Myself Path Practice See Try Wave
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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Care Human Nature Nature Passionate
Our life is a faint tracing on the surface of mystery.
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Faint Life Mystery Surface
You can’t test courage cautiously.
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Caution Courage One Liner Test
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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Empty Listen Mountain Ready Wait Wood Yourself
Write about winter in the summer.
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Summer Winter Writing
Every live thing is a survivor on a kind of extended emergency bivouac.
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Emergency Extend Kind Live Survival
The sea pronounces something, over and over, in a hoarse whisper; I cannot quite make it out.
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Pronounce Quite Sea Whisper
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.
ANNIE DILLARD

Giving Lose Play Shoot Writing
The world knew you before you knew the world.
ANNIE DILLARD

Judgment World
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.
ANNIE DILLARD

Answer Beauty Grace Performance Sense Thinking Try
I would like to learn, or remember, how to live.
ANNIE DILLARD

Inspirational Learning Live Remember
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.
ANNIE DILLARD

Inspirational Live Spend Time

I would like to learn, or remember, how to live.

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