Annie Dillard Quotes About Life
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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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How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. What we do with this hour and with that one, is what we are doing.
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How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.
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I think that the dying pray at the last not please but thank you, as a guest thanks his host at the door. Falling from airplanes the people are crying thank you, thank you, all down the air; and the cold carriages draw up for them on the rocks.
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The extravagant gesture is the very stuff of creation.
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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. Do not hoard what seems good for a later place in the book, or for another book, give it, give it all, give it now.
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An Inuit hunter asked the local missionary priest: If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell? No, said the priest, not if you did not know. Then why, asked the Inuit earnestly, did you tell me?
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The way we live our days, is the way we live our lives.
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We live half our waking lives and all of our sleeping lives in some private, useless, and insensible waters we never mention or recall.
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I would like to live. . . open to time and death painlessly, noticing everything, remembering nothing, choosing the given with a fierce and pointed will.
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Experiencing the present purely is being empty and hollow; you catch grace as a man fills his cup under a waterfall.
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The dedicated life is worth living. You must give with your whole heart.
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Our life seems cursed to be a wiggle merely, and a wandering without end.
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We teach our children one thing only, as we were taught: to wake up. We teach our children to look alive there, to join by words and activities the life of human culture on the planet
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Our life is a faint tracing on the surface of mystery.
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