Nothing moves a woman so deeply as the boyhood of the man she loves.
ANNIE DILLARDShe read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live.
More Annie Dillard Quotes
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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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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 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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You’ve got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down.
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I would like to learn, or remember, how to live.
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I wake expectant, hoping to see a new thing.
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I cannot cause light; the most I can do is try to put myself in the path of its beam. It is possible, in deep space, to sail on solar wind. Light, be it particle or wave, has force: you rig a giant sail and go. The secret of seeing is to sail on solar wind.
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The extravagant gesture is the very stuff of creation.
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Mountains are giant, restful, absorbent. You can heave your spirit into a mountain and the mountain will keep it, folded, and not throw it back as some creeks will. The creeks are the world with all its stimulus and beauty; I live there. But the mountains are home.
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What a hideout: Holiness lies spread and borne over the surface of time and stuff like color.
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Spend the afternoon. You can’t take it with you.
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You can’t test courage cautiously.
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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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These are our few live seasons. Let us live them as purely as we can, in the present.
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