The world knew you before you knew the world.
ANNIE DILLARDShe read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live.
More Annie Dillard Quotes
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I would like to learn, or remember, how to live.
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How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. What we do with this hour, and that one, is what we are doing. A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days.
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The dedicated life is worth living. You must give with your whole heart.
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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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I wake expectant, hoping to see a new thing.
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Nature is, above all, profligate.
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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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Write about winter in the summer.
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I had been my whole life a bell, and never knew it until at that moment I was lifted and struck.
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Art is like an ill-trained Labrador retriever that drags you out into traffic.
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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.
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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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The sea pronounces something, over and over, in a hoarse whisper; I cannot quite make it out.
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You do not have to sit outside in the dark. If, however, you want to look at the stars, you will find that darkness is necessary. But the stars neither require nor demand it.
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