The extravagant gesture is the very stuff of creation.
ANNIE DILLARDSpend the afternoon. You can’t take it with you.
More Annie Dillard Quotes
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Spend the afternoon. You can’t take it with you.
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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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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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The real and proper question is: why is it beautiful
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Nothing moves a woman so deeply as the boyhood of the man she loves.
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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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The life of sensation is the life of greed; it requires more and more. The life of the spirit requires less and less.
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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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The universe was not made in jest but in solemn incomprehensible earnest.
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Our life is a faint tracing on the surface of mystery.
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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 would like to learn, or remember, how to live.
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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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We have not yet encountered any god who is as merciful as a man who flicks a beetle over on its feet.
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No one escapes the wilderness on the way to the promised land.
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