I would like to learn, or remember, how to live.
ANNIE DILLARDThe extravagant gesture is the very stuff of creation.
More Annie Dillard Quotes
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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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Art is like an ill-trained Labrador retriever that drags you out into traffic.
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The dedicated life is worth living. You must give with your whole heart.
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The real and proper question is: why is it beautiful
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No one escapes the wilderness on the way to the promised land.
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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 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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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.
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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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We are most deeply asleep at the switch when we fancy we control any switches at all.
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You can’t test courage cautiously.
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It has always been a happy thought to me that the creek runs on all night, new every minute, whether I wish it or know it or care, as a closed book on a shelf continues to whisper to itself its own inexhaustible tale.
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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 secret is not to write about what you love best, but about what you, alone, love at all.
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Our life is a faint tracing on the surface of mystery.
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