I had been my whole life a bell, and never knew it until at that moment I was lifted and struck.
ANNIE DILLARD
You’ve got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down.
More Annie Dillard Quotes
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I had been my whole life a bell, and never knew it until at that moment I was lifted and struck.
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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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Books swept me away, this way and that, one after the other; I made endless vows according to their lights for I believed them.
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We are most deeply asleep at the switch when we fancy we control any switches at all.
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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 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.
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She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live.
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I wake expectant, hoping to see a new thing.
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Adverbs are a sign that you’ve used the wrong verb.
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We live in all we seek.
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Write about winter in the summer.
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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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