I would like to learn, or remember, how to live.
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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Our life is a faint tracing on the surface of mystery.
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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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Art is like an ill-trained Labrador retriever that drags you out into traffic.
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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 wake expectant, hoping to see a new thing.
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You search, you break your heart, your back, your brain, and then-and only then-it is handed to you.
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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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Make connections; let rip; and dance where you can.
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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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You can serve or you can sing, and wreck your heart in prayer, working the world’s hard work.
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The dedicated life is worth living. You must give with your whole heart.
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She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live.
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You can’t test courage cautiously.
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The extravagant gesture is the very stuff of creation.
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