We live in all we seek.
ANNIE DILLARDNature is, above all, profligate.
More Annie Dillard Quotes
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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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What a hideout: Holiness lies spread and borne over the surface of time and stuff like color.
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Write about winter in the summer.
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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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Every live thing is a survivor on a kind of extended emergency bivouac.
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Adverbs are a sign that you’ve used the wrong verb.
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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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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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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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I would like to learn, or remember, how to live.
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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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The extravagant gesture is the very stuff of creation.
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The universe was not made in jest but in solemn incomprehensible earnest.
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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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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.
ANNIE DILLARD