You search, you break your heart, your back, your brain, and then-and only then-it is handed to you.
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.
More Annie Dillard Quotes
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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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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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You can serve or you can sing, and wreck your heart in prayer, working the world’s hard work.
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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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I wake expectant, hoping to see a new thing.
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I had been my whole life a bell, and never knew it until at that moment I was lifted and struck.
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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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I would like to learn, or remember, how to live.
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The real and proper question is: why is it beautiful
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No one escapes the wilderness on the way to the promised land.
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The world knew you before you knew the world.
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You’ve got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down.
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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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The sea pronounces something, over and over, in a hoarse whisper; I cannot quite make it out.
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The dedicated life is worth living. You must give with your whole heart.
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