I would like to learn, or remember, how to live.
ANNIE DILLARDOne 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.
More Annie Dillard Quotes
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There are no events but thoughts and the heart’s hard turning, the heart’s slow learning where to love and whom. The rest is merely gossip, and tales for other times.
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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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You can’t test courage cautiously.
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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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These are our few live seasons. Let us live them as purely as we can, in the present.
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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 had been my whole life a bell, and never knew it until at that moment I was lifted and struck.
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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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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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We live in all we seek.
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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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Art is like an ill-trained Labrador retriever that drags you out into traffic.
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She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live.
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The extravagant gesture is the very stuff of creation.
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