There is no shortage of good days. It is good lives that are hard to come by.
ANNIE DILLARDPeople love pretty much the same things best. A writer looking for subjects inquires not after what he loves best, but after what he alone loves at all.
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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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People love pretty much the same things best. A writer looking for subjects inquires not after what he loves best, but after what he alone loves at all.
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Spend the afternoon. You can’t take it with you.
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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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It was less like seeing than like being for the first time seen, knocked breathless by a powerful glance.
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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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You do not have to sit outside in the dark. If, however, you want to look at the stars, you will find that darkness is necessary. But the stars neither require nor demand it.
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Our life is a faint tracing on the surface of mystery.
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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 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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He is careful of what he reads, for that is what he will write. He is careful of what he learns, for that is what he will know.
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We have not yet encountered any god who is as merciful as a man who flicks a beetle over on its feet.
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Nature is, above all, profligate.
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Every live thing is a survivor on a kind of extended emergency bivouac.
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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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