We are most deeply asleep at the switch when we fancy we control any switches at all.
ANNIE DILLARDThe extravagant gesture is the very stuff of creation.
More Annie Dillard Quotes
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She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live.
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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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Our life is a faint tracing on the surface of mystery.
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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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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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Write about winter in the summer.
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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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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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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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Nature is, above all, profligate.
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The extravagant gesture is the very stuff of creation.
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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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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 wake expectant, hoping to see a new thing.
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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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