No one escapes the wilderness on the way to the promised land.
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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Art is like an ill-trained Labrador retriever that drags you out into traffic.
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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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We are most deeply asleep at the switch when we fancy we control any switches at all.
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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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She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live.
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Our life is a faint tracing on the surface of mystery.
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You can serve or you can sing, and wreck your heart in prayer, working the world’s hard work.
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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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Nature is, above all, profligate.
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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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You can’t test courage cautiously.
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I do not so much write a book as sit up with it, as a dying friend. I hold its hand and hope it will get better.
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You do not have to sit outside in the dark. If, however, you want to look at the stars, you will find that darkness is necessary. But the stars neither require nor demand it.
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Every live thing is a survivor on a kind of extended emergency bivouac.
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Nothing moves a woman so deeply as the boyhood of the man she loves.
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