The extravagant gesture is the very stuff of creation.
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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Every live thing is a survivor on a kind of extended emergency bivouac.
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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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Spend the afternoon. You can’t take it with you.
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I would like to learn, or remember, how to live.
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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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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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These are our few live seasons. Let us live them as purely as we can, in the present.
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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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We live in all we seek.
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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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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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Nature’s silence is its one remark, and every flake of world is a chip off that old mute and immutable block.
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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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What a hideout: Holiness lies spread and borne over the surface of time and stuff like color.
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