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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
Nature's silence is its one remark, and every flake of world is a chip off that old mute and immutable block.
— Annie Dillard
You can't test courage cautiously. (Annie Dillard)
— Marcia Quinn Noren
I didn't cry, because, actually, I was an intercontinental ballistic missile, with an atomic warhead; they don't cry. Why
— Annie Dillard
We wake, if ever at all, to mystery.
— Annie Dillard
Hone and spread your spirit till you yourself are a sail, whetted, translucent, broadside to the merest puff.
— Annie Dillard
The world knew you before you knew the world.
— Annie Dillard
The way to learn about a writer is to read the text. Or texts.
— Annie Dillard
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
Beauty and grace are performed whether or not we sense them.
— Annie Dillard
The creative process obtains in all creative acts. So if I'm painting suddenly I'll see something that I didn't see before.
— Annie Dillard
The secret is not to write about what you love best, but about what you, alone, love at all.
— Annie Dillard
How you spend your days is how you spend your life.
— Annie Dillard
Time is the warp and matter the weft of the woven texture of beauty in space, and death is the hurling shuttle.
— Annie Dillard
I think the dying pray at the last not "please," but "thank you," as a guest thanks his host at the door.
— Annie Dillard
Matters of taste are not, it turns out, moral issues.
— Annie Dillard
We live in all we seek.
— Annie Dillard
When I teach, I preach. I thump the Bible. I exhort my students morally. I talk to them about the dedicated life.
— Annie Dillard
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
I'm getting used to this planet and to this curious human culture which is as cheerfully enthusiastic as it is cheerfully crue
— Annie Dillard
I had good innings, as the British say. I wrote for 38 years at the top of my form, and I wanted to quit on a high note.
— Annie Dillard
As soon as beauty is sought not from religion and love, but for pleasure, it degrades the seeker.
— Annie Dillard
Caring passionately about something isn't against nature, and it isn't against human nature. It's what we're here to do.
— Annie Dillard
Why, why in the blue-green world write this sort of thing? Funny written culture, I guess; we pass things on.
— Annie Dillard
The way you live your days is the way you live your life.
— Annie Dillard
We are most deeply asleep at the switch when we fancy we control any switches at all.
— Annie Dillard
I would like to learn, or remember, how to live.
— Annie Dillard
How can people think that artists seek a name? There is no such thing as an artist - only the world, lit or unlit, as the world allows.
— Annie Dillard
The extravagant gesture is the very stuff of creation.
— Annie Dillard
You have to take pains in a memoir not to hang on the reader's arm, like a drunk, and say, 'And then I did this and it was so interesting.
— Annie Dillard
It was less like seeing than like being for the first time seen, knocked breathless by a powerful glance.
— Annie Dillard
'Fecundity' is an ugly word for an ugly subject. It is ugly, at least, in the eggy animal world. I don't think it is for plants.
— Annie Dillard
Write about winter in the summer.
— Annie Dillard
At night I read and write, and things I have never understood become clear; I reap the harvest of the rest of the year's planting
— Annie Dillard
It is the beginning of a work that the writer throws away.
— Annie Dillard
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
The interior life is often stupid.
— Annie Dillard
We are here to witness the creation and to abet it.
— Annie Dillard
Almost all of my many passionate interests, and my many changes of mind, came through books. Books prompted the many vows I made to myself.
— Annie Dillard
You do what you do out of your private love of the thing itself.
— Annie Dillard
If we were to judge nature by common sense or likelihood, we wouldn't believe the world existed.
— Annie Dillard
Van Gogh is utterly dead; the world may be fixed, but it never was broken. And shadow itself may resolve into beauty.
— Annie Dillard
Spend the afternoon, you can't take it with you.
— Annie Dillard
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
Like everyone in his right mind, I feared Santa Claus.
— Annie Dillard
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.
— Annie Dillard
You can't test courage cautiously.
— Annie Dillard
Write as if you were dying.
— Annie Dillard
I could very calmly go wild.
— Annie Dillard
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
She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live.
— Annie Dillard
I never met a man who was shaken by a field of identical blades of grass. An acre of poppies and a forest of spruce boggle no one's mind.
— Annie Dillard
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
I work mornings only. I go out to lunch. Afternoons I play with the baby, walk with my husband, or shovel mail.
— Annie Dillard
To dust is only to forestall burial
— Annie Dillard
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
The courage of children and beasts is a function of innocence.
— Annie Dillard
Every spring he vowed to quit teaching school, and every summer he missed his pupils and searched for them on the streets.
— Annie Dillard
There is a muscular energy in sunlight corresponding to the spiritual energy of wind.
— Annie Dillard
door. "Hey, Dillard," Johnny Wayne said suddenly.
— Scott Pratt
For all the insularity of the old guard, Pittsburgh was always an open and democratic town.
— Annie Dillard
We still and always want waking.
— Annie Dillard
I had been my whole life a bell, and never knew it until at that moment I was lifted and struck.
— Annie Dillard
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
Push it. examine all things intensely and relentlessly.
— Annie Dillard
Old memories are very easy to get except that once you write about something you've destroyed it.
— Annie Dillard
The dear, stupid body is as easily satisfied as a spaniel.
— Annie Dillard
I worked so hard all my life, and all I want to do now is read.
— Annie Dillard
The writer studies literature, not the world. He is careful of what he reads, for that is what he will write.
— Annie Dillard
I woke in bits, like all children, piecemeal over the years. I discovered myself and the world, and forgot them, and discovered them again.
— Annie Dillard
Life by its mere appalling length is a feat of endurance for which you haven't the strength.
— Annie Dillard
Appealing workplaces are to be avoided. One wants a room with no view, so imagination can meet memory in the dark.
— Annie Dillard
Cruelty is a mystery, and a waste of pain.
— Annie Dillard
The soul may ask God for anything, and never fail.
— Annie Dillard
I couldn't unpeach the peaches.
— Annie Dillard
