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 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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I would like to learn, or remember, how to live.
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We are most deeply asleep at the switch when we fancy we control any switches at all.
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There are no events but thoughts and the heart’s hard turning, the heart’s slow learning where to love and whom. The rest is merely gossip, and tales for other times.
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You’ve got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down.
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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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The secret is not to write about what you love best, but about what you, alone, love at all.
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I wake expectant, hoping to see a new thing.
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Write about winter in the summer.
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Nothing moves a woman so deeply as the boyhood of the man she loves.
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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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Our life is a faint tracing on the surface of mystery.
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Art is like an ill-trained Labrador retriever that drags you out into traffic.
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Adverbs are a sign that you’ve used the wrong verb.
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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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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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