You’ve got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down.
ANNIE DILLARDThe world knew you before you knew the world.
More Annie Dillard Quotes
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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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Nothing moves a woman so deeply as the boyhood of the man she loves.
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Every live thing is a survivor on a kind of extended emergency bivouac.
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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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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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What a hideout: Holiness lies spread and borne over the surface of time and stuff like color.
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The answer must be, I think, that beauty and grace are performed whether or not we will or sense them. The least we can do is try to be there.
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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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I come down to the water to cool my eyes. But everywhere I look I see fire; that which isn’t flint is tinder, and the whole world sparks and flames.
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The dedicated life is worth living. You must give with your whole heart.
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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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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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I wake expectant, hoping to see a new thing.
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The sea pronounces something, over and over, in a hoarse whisper; I cannot quite make it out.
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