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.
ANNIE DILLARDThere 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.
More Annie Dillard Quotes
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The real and proper question is: why is it beautiful
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Adverbs are a sign that you’ve used the wrong verb.
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We live in all we seek.
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Make connections; let rip; and dance where you can.
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Write about winter in the summer.
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She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live.
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I think it would be well, and proper, and obedient, and pure, to grasp your one necessity and not let it go, to dangle from it limp wherever it takes you.
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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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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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Art is like an ill-trained Labrador retriever that drags you out into traffic.
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Our life is a faint tracing on the surface of mystery.
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Nothing moves a woman so deeply as the boyhood of the man she loves.
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The universe was not made in jest but in solemn incomprehensible earnest.
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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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