We are here on the planet only once, and might as well get a feel for the place.
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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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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It was less like seeing than like being for the first time seen, knocked breathless by a powerful glance.
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Our life is a faint tracing on the surface of mystery.
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Every live thing is a survivor on a kind of extended emergency bivouac.
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There are no events but thoughts and the heart’s hard turning, the heart’s slow learning where to love and whom. The rest is merely gossip, and tales for other times.
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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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Make connections; let rip; and dance where you can.
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I would like to learn, or remember, how to live.
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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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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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The extravagant gesture is the very stuff of creation.
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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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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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