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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.

Annie Dillard

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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Encounter Feet Flick God Mercy
The dedicated life is worth living. You must give with your whole heart.
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Dedicate Giving Heart Life Live Worth
The extravagant gesture is the very stuff of creation.
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Creation Gesture Stuff
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.
ANNIE DILLARD

Answer Beauty Grace Performance Sense Thinking Try
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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Giving Lose Play Time Writing
Art is like an ill-trained Labrador retriever that drags you out into traffic.
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Art Traffic Traning
Write about winter in the summer.
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Summer Winter Writing
Books swept me away, this way and that, one after the other; I made endless vows according to their lights for I believed them.
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According Away Believe Book Light Swept
Caring passionately about something isn’t against nature, and it isn’t against human nature. It’s what we’re here to do.
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Care Human Nature Nature Passionate
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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Beam Cause Inspirational Light Myself Path Practice See Try Wave
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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Ansore Beauty Giant Home Mountain Spirit Throw Trekking
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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Awareness Break Up Dive Rise Sea Skin Time
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.
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Book Happiness Literature Nature Night Reading Words
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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Inspirational Live Spend Time
I would like to learn, or remember, how to live.
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Inspirational Learning Live Remember
Adverbs are a sign that you’ve used the wrong verb.
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Use Writing Wrong

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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