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Annie Dillard quotes: We are here to bring to consciousness the beauty and power that are around us and to praise the people who are here with us. We are here to bring to consciousness the beauty and power that are around us and to praise the people who are here with us.
Annie Dillard quotes: Your work is to keep cranking the flywheel that turns the gears that spin the belt in the engine of belief that keeps you and your desk in midair. Your work is to keep cranking the flywheel that turns the gears that spin the belt in the engine of belief that keeps you and your desk in midair.
Annie Dillard quotes: Nature's silence is its one remark, and every flake of world is a chip off that old mute and immutable block. Nature's silence is its one remark, and every flake of world is a chip off that old mute and immutable block.
Annie Dillard quotes: Evolution loves death more than it loves you or me. This is easy to write, easy to read, and hard to believe. Evolution loves death more than it loves you or me. This is easy to write, easy to read, and hard to believe.
Annie Dillard quotes: I smelled silt on the wind, turkey, laundry, leaves ... my God what a world. There is no accounting for one second of it (267). I smelled silt on the wind, turkey, laundry, leaves ... my God what a world. There is no accounting for one second of it (267).
Annie Dillard quotes: Ecstasy, I think, is a soul's response to the waves holiness makes as it nears. Ecstasy, I think, is a soul's response to the waves holiness makes as it nears.
Annie Dillard quotes: How loose he seemed to himself, under the stars! The spaces between the stars were pores, out of which human meaning evaporated. How loose he seemed to himself, under the stars! The spaces between the stars were pores, out of which human meaning evaporated.
Annie Dillard quotes: This is a spendthrift economy; though nothing is lost, all is spent. This is a spendthrift economy; though nothing is lost, all is spent.
Annie Dillard quotes: Our life seems cursed to be a wiggle merely, and a wandering without end. Our life seems cursed to be a wiggle merely, and a wandering without end.
Annie Dillard quotes: The way to learn about a writer is to read the text. Or texts. The way to learn about a writer is to read the text. Or texts.
Annie Dillard quotes: I am a fugitive and a vagabond, a sojourner seeking signs. I am a fugitive and a vagabond, a sojourner seeking signs.
Annie Dillard quotes: Why do we people in churches seem like cheerful, brainless tourists on a packaged tour of the Absolute? Why do we people in churches seem like cheerful, brainless tourists on a packaged tour of the Absolute?
Annie Dillard quotes: I had hopes for my rough edges. I wanted to use them as a can opener, to cut myself a hole in the world's surface and exit through it. I had hopes for my rough edges. I wanted to use them as a can opener, to cut myself a hole in the world's surface and exit through it.
Annie Dillard quotes: The secret is not to write about what you love best, but about what you, alone, love at all. The secret is not to write about what you love best, but about what you, alone, love at all.
Annie Dillard quotes: Self-consciousness is the curse of the city and all that sophistication implies. Self-consciousness is the curse of the city and all that sophistication implies.
Annie Dillard quotes: You search, you break your heart, your back, your brain, and then-and only then-it is handed to you. You search, you break your heart, your back, your brain, and then-and only then-it is handed to you.
Annie Dillard quotes: It was a clear, picturesque day, a February day without could, without emotion or spirit, like a beautiful women with an empty face. It was a clear, picturesque day, a February day without could, without emotion or spirit, like a beautiful women with an empty face.
Annie Dillard quotes: Art is like an ill-trained Labrador retriever that drags you out into traffic. Art is like an ill-trained Labrador retriever that drags you out into traffic.
Annie Dillard quotes: Then why did you tell me? Then why did you tell me?
Annie Dillard quotes: The point of going somewhere like the Napo River in Ecuador is not to see the most spectacular anything. It is simply to see what is there. The point of going somewhere like the Napo River in Ecuador is not to see the most spectacular anything. It is simply to see what is there.
Annie Dillard quotes: People who read are not too lazy to turn on the television; they prefer books. People who read are not too lazy to turn on the television; they prefer books.
Annie Dillard quotes: People love the good not much less than the beautiful, and the happy as well, or even just the living, for the world of it all, and heart's home. People love the good not much less than the beautiful, and the happy as well, or even just the living, for the world of it all, and heart's home.
Annie Dillard quotes: He is careful of what he reads, for this is what he will write. He is careful of what he learns, as this is what he will know. He is careful of what he reads, for this is what he will write. He is careful of what he learns, as this is what he will know.
Annie Dillard quotes: We are here on the planet only once, and might as well get a feel for the place. We are here on the planet only once, and might as well get a feel for the place.
Annie Dillard quotes: There was real beauty to the old idea of living and dying where you were born. There was real beauty to the old idea of living and dying where you were born.
Annie Dillard quotes: We still & always want waking. We still & always want waking.
Annie Dillard quotes: It is no less difficult to write a sentence in a recipe than sentences in Moby Dick. So you might as well write Moby Dick. It is no less difficult to write a sentence in a recipe than sentences in Moby Dick. So you might as well write Moby Dick.
Annie Dillard quotes: Nothing on earth is more gladdening than knowing we must roll up our sleeves and move back the boundaries of the humanly possible once more. Nothing on earth is more gladdening than knowing we must roll up our sleeves and move back the boundaries of the humanly possible once more.
Annie Dillard quotes: No one can help you if you're stuck in a work. Only you can figure a way out, because only you can see the work's possibilities. No one can help you if you're stuck in a work. Only you can figure a way out, because only you can see the work's possibilities.
Annie Dillard quotes: You can't test courage cautiously, so I ran hard and waved my arms hard, happy. You can't test courage cautiously, so I ran hard and waved my arms hard, happy.
Annie Dillard quotes: Put yourself out of your misery. Put yourself out of your misery.
Annie Dillard quotes: The secret of seeing is to sail on solar wind. The secret of seeing is to sail on solar wind.
Annie Dillard quotes: Lick a finger: feel the now. Lick a finger: feel the now.
Annie Dillard quotes: Whenever there is stillness there is the still small voice, God's speaking from the whirlwind, nature's old song, and dance ... Whenever there is stillness there is the still small voice, God's speaking from the whirlwind, nature's old song, and dance ...
Annie Dillard quotes: The more you read, the more you will write. The better the stuff you read, the better the stuff you will write. The more you read, the more you will write. The better the stuff you read, the better the stuff you will write.
Annie Dillard quotes: An Eskimo shaman said, "Life's greatest danger lies in the fact that man's food consists entirely of souls". An Eskimo shaman said, "Life's greatest danger lies in the fact that man's food consists entirely of souls".
Annie Dillard quotes: Novels written with film contracts in mind have a faint but unmistakable, and ruinous, odor. Novels written with film contracts in mind have a faint but unmistakable, and ruinous, odor.
Annie Dillard quotes: Anything can happen, and anything does; Anything can happen, and anything does;
Annie Dillard quotes: No one escapes the wilderness on the way to the promised land. No one escapes the wilderness on the way to the promised land.
Annie Dillard quotes: Are you living just a little and calling that life? Are you living just a little and calling that life?
Annie Dillard quotes: I cannot cause light; the most I can do is try to put myself in the path of its beam. I cannot cause light; the most I can do is try to put myself in the path of its beam.
Annie Dillard quotes: There is always an enormous temptation to diddle around making itsy-bitsy friends and meals and journeys for itsy-bitsy years on end. There is always an enormous temptation to diddle around making itsy-bitsy friends and meals and journeys for itsy-bitsy years on end.
Annie Dillard quotes: I wake expectant, hoping to see a new thing. I wake expectant, hoping to see a new thing.
Annie Dillard quotes: If I actually believed that the progress of human understanding depended on our crop of contemporary novelists, I would shoot myself. If I actually believed that the progress of human understanding depended on our crop of contemporary novelists, I would shoot myself.
Annie Dillard quotes: As a life's work, I would remember everything - everything, against loss. I would go through life like a plankton net. As a life's work, I would remember everything - everything, against loss. I would go through life like a plankton net.
Annie Dillard quotes: If the sore spot is not fatal, if it does not grow and block something, you can use its power for many years, until the heart resorbs it. If the sore spot is not fatal, if it does not grow and block something, you can use its power for many years, until the heart resorbs it.
Annie Dillard quotes: They dissolved when I tried to inspect them, or dimmed, or slid dizzyingly away, like a ship's stern yawing down the dark lee slope of a wave. They dissolved when I tried to inspect them, or dimmed, or slid dizzyingly away, like a ship's stern yawing down the dark lee slope of a wave.
Annie Dillard quotes: There were no formerly heroic times, and there was no formerly pure generation. There is no one here but us chickens, and so it has always been. There were no formerly heroic times, and there was no formerly pure generation. There is no one here but us chickens, and so it has always been.
Annie Dillard quotes: At its best, the sensation of writing is that of any unmerited grace. It is handed to you, but only if you look for it. At its best, the sensation of writing is that of any unmerited grace. It is handed to you, but only if you look for it.
Annie Dillard quotes: The Pulitzer is more useful than meaningful. The Pulitzer is more useful than meaningful.
Annie Dillard quotes: On plenty of days the writer can write three or four pages, and on plenty of other days he concludes he must throw them away. On plenty of days the writer can write three or four pages, and on plenty of other days he concludes he must throw them away.
Annie Dillard quotes: I had been chipping at the world idly, and had by accident uncovered vast and labyrinthine further worlds within it. I had been chipping at the world idly, and had by accident uncovered vast and labyrinthine further worlds within it.
Annie Dillard quotes: Where is privacy, if not in the mind? Where is privacy, if not in the mind?
Annie Dillard quotes: No one ever said it would be easy No one ever said it would be easy
Annie Dillard quotes: The dedicated life is worth living. You must give your whole heart to whatever you do. The dedicated life is worth living. You must give your whole heart to whatever you do.
Annie Dillard quotes: I write in my own journal when something extraordinary or funny happens. And there's some nice imagery in there. I don't think of what to do with it. I write in my own journal when something extraordinary or funny happens. And there's some nice imagery in there. I don't think of what to do with it.
Annie Dillard quotes: Push it. examine all things intensely and relentlessly. Push it. examine all things intensely and relentlessly.
Annie Dillard quotes: Buddhism notes that it is always a mistake to think your soul can go it alone. Buddhism notes that it is always a mistake to think your soul can go it alone.
Annie Dillard quotes: Admire the world for never ending on you as you would an opponent, without taking your eyes away from him, or walking away. Admire the world for never ending on you
as you would an opponent, without taking your eyes away from him, or walking away.
Annie Dillard quotes: The dear, stupid body is as easily satisfied as a spaniel. The dear, stupid body is as easily satisfied as a spaniel.
Annie Dillard quotes: Life by its mere appalling length is a feat of endurance for which you haven't the strength. Life by its mere appalling length is a feat of endurance for which you haven't the strength.
Annie Dillard quotes: The general rule in nature is that live things are soft within and rigid without. The general rule in nature is that live things are soft within and rigid without.
Annie Dillard quotes: Appealing workplaces are to be avoided. One wants a room with no view, so imagination can meet memory in the dark. Appealing workplaces are to be avoided. One wants a room with no view, so imagination can meet memory in the dark.
Annie Dillard quotes: Nothing moves a woman so deeply as the boyhood of the man she loves. Nothing moves a woman so deeply as the boyhood of the man she loves.
Annie Dillard quotes: The soul may ask God for anything, and never fail. The soul may ask God for anything, and never fail.
Annie Dillard quotes: I couldn't unpeach the peaches. I couldn't unpeach the peaches.
Annie Dillard quotes: You can't test courage cautiously. You can't test courage cautiously.
Annie Dillard quotes: We live half our waking lives and all of our sleeping lives in some private, useless, and insensible waters we never mention or recall. We live half our waking lives and all of our sleeping lives in some private, useless, and insensible waters we never mention or recall.
Annie Dillard quotes: Write as if you were dying. Write as if you were dying.
Annie Dillard quotes: I could very calmly go wild. I could very calmly go wild.
Annie Dillard quotes: It's a little silly to finally learn how to write at this age. But I long ago realized I was secretly sincere. It's a little silly to finally learn how to write at this age. But I long ago realized I was secretly sincere.
Annie Dillard quotes: I read with the pure, exhilarating greed of readers sixteen, seventeen years old; I read with the pure, exhilarating greed of readers sixteen, seventeen years old;
Annie Dillard quotes: 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. 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.
Annie Dillard quotes: I work mornings only. I go out to lunch. Afternoons I play with the baby, walk with my husband, or shovel mail. I work mornings only. I go out to lunch. Afternoons I play with the baby, walk with my husband, or shovel mail.
Annie Dillard quotes: This hospital, like every other, is a hole in the universe through which holiness issues in blasts. It blows both ways, in and out of time. This hospital, like every other, is a hole in the universe through which holiness issues in blasts. It blows both ways, in and out of time.
Annie Dillard quotes: The courage of children and beasts is a function of innocence. The courage of children and beasts is a function of innocence.
Annie Dillard quotes: Every spring he vowed to quit teaching school, and every summer he missed his pupils and searched for them on the streets. Every spring he vowed to quit teaching school, and every summer he missed his pupils and searched for them on the streets.
Annie Dillard quotes: There is a muscular energy in sunlight corresponding to the spiritual energy of wind. There is a muscular energy in sunlight corresponding to the spiritual energy of wind.
Annie Dillard quotes: If we were to judge nature by common sense or likelihood, we wouldn't believe the world existed. If we were to judge nature by common sense or likelihood, we wouldn't believe the world existed.
Annie Dillard quotes: I woke at intervals until ... the intervals of waking tipped the scales, and I was more often awake than not. I woke at intervals until ... the intervals of waking tipped the scales, and I was more often awake than not.
Annie Dillard quotes: When I first read the words 'introvert' and 'extrovert' when I was 10, I thought I was both. When I first read the words 'introvert' and 'extrovert' when I was 10, I thought I was both.
Annie Dillard quotes: All my books started out as extravagant and ended up pure and plain. All my books started out as extravagant and ended up pure and plain.
Annie Dillard quotes: The sea pronounces something, over and over, in a hoarse whisper; I cannot quite make it out. The sea pronounces something, over and over, in a hoarse whisper; I cannot quite make it out.
Annie Dillard quotes: Old memories are very easy to get except that once you write about something you've destroyed it. Old memories are very easy to get except that once you write about something you've destroyed it.
Annie Dillard quotes: A schedule is a mock-up of reason and order - willed, faked, and so brought into being. A schedule is a mock-up of reason and order - willed, faked, and so brought into being.
Annie Dillard quotes: So live. I'll be the nun for you. I am now. So live. I'll be the nun for you. I am now.
Annie Dillard quotes: We are most deeply asleep at the switch when we fancy we control any switches at all. We are most deeply asleep at the switch when we fancy we control any switches at all.
Annie Dillard quotes: I would like to learn, or remember, how to live. I would like to learn, or remember, how to live.
Annie Dillard quotes: Eskimo: "If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell?" Priest: "No, not if you did not know." Eskimo: "Then why did you tell me? Eskimo: "If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell?" Priest: "No, not if you did not know." Eskimo: "Then why did you tell me?
Annie Dillard quotes: Look upstream. Just simply turn around; have you no will? Look upstream. Just simply turn around; have you no will?
Annie Dillard quotes: Spend the afternoon, you can't take it with you. Spend the afternoon, you can't take it with you.
Annie Dillard quotes: The interior life is often stupid. The interior life is often stupid.
Annie Dillard quotes: I know only enough of God to want to worship him, by any means ready to hand. I know only enough of God to want to worship him, by any means ready to hand.
Annie Dillard quotes: The dedicated life is the life worth living. You must give with your whole heart. The dedicated life is the life worth living. You must give with your whole heart.
Annie Dillard quotes: 1. Only a total unself-consciousness will permit me to live with myself (202). 1. Only a total unself-consciousness will permit me to live with myself (202).
Annie Dillard quotes: It is the beginning of a work that the writer throws away. It is the beginning of a work that the writer throws away.
Annie Dillard quotes: We wake, if we ever wake at all, to mystery, rumors of death, beauty, violence ... We wake, if we ever wake at all, to mystery, rumors of death, beauty, violence ...
Annie Dillard quotes: The extravagant gesture is the very stuff of creation. The extravagant gesture is the very stuff of creation.
Annie Dillard quotes: Silence is not our heritage but our destiny; we live where we want to live. Silence is not our heritage but our destiny; we live where we want to live.
Annie Dillard quotes: I woke in bits, like all children, piecemeal over the years. I discovered myself and the world, and forgot them, and discovered them again. I woke in bits, like all children, piecemeal over the years. I discovered myself and the world, and forgot them, and discovered them again.

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