I wake expectant, hoping to see a new thing.
ANNIE DILLARDThere is no shortage of good days. It is good lives that are hard to come by.
More Annie Dillard Quotes
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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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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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Art is like an ill-trained Labrador retriever that drags you out into traffic.
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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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The answer must be, I think, that beauty and grace are performed whether or not we will or sense them. The least we can do is try to be there.
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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 can serve or you can sing, and wreck your heart in prayer, working the world’s hard work.
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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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There is no shortage of good days. It is good lives that are hard to come by.
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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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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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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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You’ve got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down.
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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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The world knew you before you knew the world.
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