We live in all we seek.
ANNIE DILLARDI 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.
More Annie Dillard Quotes
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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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At a certain point, you say to the woods, to the sea, to the mountains, the world, Now I am ready. Now I will stop and be wholly attentive. You empty yourself and wait, listening.
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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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Our life is a faint tracing on the surface of mystery.
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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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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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You’ve got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down.
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It was less like seeing than like being for the first time seen, knocked breathless by a powerful glance.
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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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People love pretty much the same things best. A writer looking for subjects inquires not after what he loves best, but after what he alone loves at all.
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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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You can’t test courage cautiously.
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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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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 extravagant gesture is the very stuff of creation.
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