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.
ANNIE DILLARDYou 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.
More Annie Dillard Quotes
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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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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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I wake expectant, hoping to see a new thing.
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Nothing moves a woman so deeply as the boyhood of the man she loves.
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I do not so much write a book as sit up with it, as a dying friend. I hold its hand and hope it will get better.
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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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The real and proper question is: why is it beautiful
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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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Make connections; let rip; and dance where you can.
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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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Art is like an ill-trained Labrador retriever that drags you out into traffic.
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No one escapes the wilderness on the way to the promised land.
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Nature is, above all, profligate.
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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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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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