Adverbs are a sign that you’ve used the wrong verb.
ANNIE DILLARDEvery live thing is a survivor on a kind of extended emergency bivouac.
More Annie Dillard Quotes
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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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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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How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. What we do with this hour, and that one, is what we are doing. A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days.
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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 cannot cause light; the most I can do is try to put myself in the path of its beam. It is possible, in deep space, to sail on solar wind. Light, be it particle or wave, has force: you rig a giant sail and go. The secret of seeing is to sail on solar wind.
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The real and proper question is: why is it beautiful
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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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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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Nothing moves a woman so deeply as the boyhood of the man she loves.
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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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We are most deeply asleep at the switch when we fancy we control any switches at all.
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We live in all we seek.
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Spend the afternoon. You can’t take it with you.
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Every live thing is a survivor on a kind of extended emergency bivouac.
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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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