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 DILLARDThe 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.
More Annie Dillard Quotes
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Adverbs are a sign that you’ve used the wrong verb.
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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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The world knew you before you knew the world.
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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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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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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 life of sensation is the life of greed; it requires more and more. The life of the spirit requires less and less.
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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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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 dedicated life is worth living. You must give with your whole heart.
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No one escapes the wilderness on the way to the promised land.
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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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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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Nothing moves a woman so deeply as the boyhood of the man she loves.
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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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