You’ve got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down.
ANNIE DILLARDSpend the afternoon. You can’t take it with you.
More Annie Dillard Quotes
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There is no shortage of good days. It is good lives that are hard to come by.
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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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Nature is, above all, profligate.
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The world knew you before you knew the world.
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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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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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These are our few live seasons. Let us live them as purely as we can, in the present.
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Nothing moves a woman so deeply as the boyhood of the man she loves.
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The extravagant gesture is the very stuff of creation.
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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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I would like to learn, or remember, how to live.
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The universe was not made in jest but in solemn incomprehensible earnest.
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She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live.
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The secret is not to write about what you love best, but about what you, alone, love at all.
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At a certain point, you say to the woods, to the sea, to the mountains, the world, Now I am ready. Now I will stop and be wholly attentive. You empty yourself and wait, listening.
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