Nature is, above all, profligate.
ANNIE DILLARDThe secret is not to write about what you love best, but about what you, alone, love at all.
More Annie Dillard Quotes
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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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The secret is not to write about what you love best, but about what you, alone, love at all.
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Nothing moves a woman so deeply as the boyhood of the man she loves.
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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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Make connections; let rip; and dance where you can.
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The world knew you before you knew the world.
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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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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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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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Every live thing is a survivor on a kind of extended emergency bivouac.
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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 here on the planet only once, and might as well get a feel for the place.
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Write about winter in the summer.
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Mountains are giant, restful, absorbent. You can heave your spirit into a mountain and the mountain will keep it, folded, and not throw it back as some creeks will. The creeks are the world with all its stimulus and beauty; I live there. But the mountains are home.
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I would like to learn, or remember, how to live.
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