I wake expectant, hoping to see a new thing.
ANNIE DILLARDEvery live thing is a survivor on a kind of extended emergency bivouac.
More Annie Dillard Quotes
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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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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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You can’t test courage cautiously.
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Nature is, above all, profligate.
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The life of sensation is the life of greed; it requires more and more. The life of the spirit requires less and less.
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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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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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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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Our life is a faint tracing on the surface of mystery.
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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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You’ve got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down.
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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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Adverbs are a sign that you’ve used the wrong verb.
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The real and proper question is: why is it beautiful
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