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She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live.

Annie Dillard

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.
ANNIE DILLARD

Care Learning Reading Writing
The extravagant gesture is the very stuff of creation.
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Creation Gesture Stuff
Caring passionately about something isn’t against nature, and it isn’t against human nature. It’s what we’re here to do.
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Care Human Nature Nature Passionate
Wherever we go, there seems to be only one business at hand – that of finding a workable compromise between the sublimity of our ideas and the absurdity of the fact of us.
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Absurd Business Compromise Fact Finding Hands Ideas Work
We are most deeply asleep at the switch when we fancy we control any switches at all.
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Control Fancy Sleep Switch
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.
ANNIE DILLARD

Die Friendship Hope Writing
She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live.
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Air Book Breathe Live Reading
I would like to learn, or remember, how to live.
ANNIE DILLARD

Inspirational Learning Live Remember
I wake expectant, hoping to see a new thing.
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Hope Inspirational Positive Wake Up
The universe was not made in jest but in solemn incomprehensible earnest.
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Comprehensive Earn Universe
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.
ANNIE DILLARD

Awareness Break Up Dive Rise Sea Skin Time
People love pretty much the same things best. A writer looking for subjects inquires not after what he loves best, but after what he alone loves at all.
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Alone Inquire Love People Pretty Subject
You’ve got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down.
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Build Inspirational Jump Time Wings
Nature is, above all, profligate.
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Nature One Liner
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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Block Flake Mute Nature Silence World
You can serve or you can sing, and wreck your heart in prayer, working the world’s hard work.
ANNIE DILLARD

Heart Prayer Serve Sing Work Hard World

She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live.

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