It has always been a happy thought to me that the creek runs on all night, new every minute, whether I wish it or know it or care, as a closed book on a shelf continues to whisper to itself its own inexhaustible tale.
ANNIE DILLARDNature is, above all, profligate.
More Annie Dillard Quotes
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Art is like an ill-trained Labrador retriever that drags you out into traffic.
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I would like to learn, or remember, how to live.
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The secret is not to write about what you love best, but about what you, alone, love at all.
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The real and proper question is: why is it beautiful
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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 live in all we seek.
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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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She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live.
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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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Our life is a faint tracing on the surface of mystery.
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Spend the afternoon. You can’t take it with you.
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Experiencing the present purely is being empty and hollow; you catch grace as a man fills his cup under a waterfall.
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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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It was less like seeing than like being for the first time seen, knocked breathless by a powerful glance.
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You can’t test courage cautiously.
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