I wake expectant, hoping to see a new thing.
ANNIE DILLARDArt is like an ill-trained Labrador retriever that drags you out into traffic.
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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She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and 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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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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We are most deeply asleep at the switch when we fancy we control any switches at all.
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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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The extravagant gesture is the very stuff of creation.
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I break up through the skin of awareness a thousand times a day, as dolphins burst through seas, and dive again, and rise, and dive.
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Nature is, above all, profligate.
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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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You can serve or you can sing, and wreck your heart in prayer, working the world’s hard work.
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Adverbs are a sign that you’ve used the wrong verb.
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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 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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These are our few live seasons. Let us live them as purely as we can, in the present.
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