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.
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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No one escapes the wilderness on the way to the promised land.
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The extravagant gesture is the very stuff of creation.
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We are here on the planet only once, and might as well get a feel for the place.
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Spend the afternoon. You can’t take it with you.
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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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You search, you break your heart, your back, your brain, and then-and only then-it is handed to you.
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The universe was not made in jest but in solemn incomprehensible earnest.
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Every live thing is a survivor on a kind of extended emergency bivouac.
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We live in all we seek.
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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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Adverbs are a sign that you’ve used the wrong verb.
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Make connections; let rip; and dance where you can.
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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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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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The sea pronounces something, over and over, in a hoarse whisper; I cannot quite make it out.
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