Nature is, above all, profligate.
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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I would like to learn, or remember, how to live.
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I wake expectant, hoping to see a new thing.
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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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The sea pronounces something, over and over, in a hoarse whisper; I cannot quite make it out.
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The universe was not made in jest but in solemn incomprehensible earnest.
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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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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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Art is like an ill-trained Labrador retriever that drags you out into traffic.
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Every live thing is a survivor on a kind of extended emergency bivouac.
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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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You can’t test courage cautiously.
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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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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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