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.
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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Spend the afternoon. You can’t take it with you.
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The real and proper question is: why is it beautiful
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These are our few live seasons. Let us live them as purely as we can, in the present.
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She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live.
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The dedicated life is worth living. You must give with your whole heart.
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We live in all we seek.
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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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Every live thing is a survivor on a kind of extended emergency bivouac.
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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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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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You search, you break your heart, your back, your brain, and then-and only then-it is handed to you.
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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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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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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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