Make connections; let rip; and dance where you can.
ANNIE DILLARDThe extravagant gesture is the very stuff of creation.
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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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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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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Adverbs are a sign that you’ve used the wrong verb.
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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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I would like to learn, or remember, how to live.
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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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The secret is not to write about what you love best, but about what you, alone, love at all.
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Write about winter in the summer.
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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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Nothing moves a woman so deeply as the boyhood of the man she loves.
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She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live.
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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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The world knew you before you knew the world.
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