The sea pronounces something, over and over, in a hoarse whisper; I cannot quite make it out.
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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Wherever we go, there seems to be only one business at hand – that of finding a workable compromise between the sublimity of our ideas and the absurdity of the fact of us.
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I wake expectant, hoping to see a new thing.
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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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Adverbs are a sign that you’ve used the wrong verb.
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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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The extravagant gesture is the very stuff of creation.
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The real and proper question is: why is it beautiful
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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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Nature is, above all, profligate.
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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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It was less like seeing than like being for the first time seen, knocked breathless by a powerful glance.
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Nothing moves a woman so deeply as the boyhood of the man she loves.
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We live in all we seek.
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Mountains are giant, restful, absorbent. You can heave your spirit into a mountain and the mountain will keep it, folded, and not throw it back as some creeks will. The creeks are the world with all its stimulus and beauty; I live there. But the mountains are home.
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You can’t test courage cautiously.
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