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.
ANNIE DILLARDWe are here on the planet only once, and might as well get a feel for the place.
More Annie Dillard Quotes
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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 was less like seeing than like being for the first time seen, knocked breathless by a powerful glance.
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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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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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There is no shortage of good days. It is good lives that are hard to come by.
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I would like to learn, or remember, how to live.
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I come down to the water to cool my eyes. But everywhere I look I see fire; that which isn’t flint is tinder, and the whole world sparks and flames.
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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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The universe was not made in jest but in solemn incomprehensible earnest.
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Make connections; let rip; and dance where you can.
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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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You’ve got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down.
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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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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 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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