Nature’s silence is its one remark, and every flake of world is a chip off that old mute and immutable block.
ANNIE DILLARDWhat a hideout: Holiness lies spread and borne over the surface of time and stuff like color.
More Annie Dillard Quotes
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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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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.
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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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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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The secret is not to write about what you love best, but about what you, alone, love at all.
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We live in all we seek.
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At a certain point, you say to the woods, to the sea, to the mountains, the world, Now I am ready. Now I will stop and be wholly attentive. You empty yourself and wait, listening.
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Adverbs are a sign that you’ve used the wrong verb.
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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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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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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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Nothing moves a woman so deeply as the boyhood of the man she loves.
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Spend the afternoon. You can’t take it with you.
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No one escapes the wilderness on the way to the promised land.
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The real and proper question is: why is it beautiful
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