"He judged the instant and let go; he……" — Annie Dillard
"He judged the instant and let go; he flung himself loose into the stars."
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260 Quotes by Annie Dillard
Annie Dillard has 260 quotes on this site.
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If we were to judge nature by common sense or likelihood, we wouldn't believe the world existed.
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Experiencing the present purely is being empty and hollow; you catch grace as a man fills his cup under a…
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We are here to witness the creation and to abet it. We are here to notice each thing so each…
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You empty yourself and wait, listening. After a time you hear it: There is nothing there...You feel the world's word…
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The way we live our days, is the way we live our lives.
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I wake expectant, hoping to see a new thing.
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I think the dying pray at the last not "please," but "thank you," as a guest thanks his host at…
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I think that the dying pray at the last not please but thank you, as a guest thanks his host…
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Learn punctuation; it is your little drum set, one of the few tools oyu have to signal the reader where…
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Why are we reading, if not in hope of beauty laid bare, life heightened and its deepest mystery probed?
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The more you read, the more you will write. The better the stuff you read, the better the stuff you…
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When you write, you lay out a line of words. The line of words is a miner's pick, a wood…
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Breathless, we flung us on a windy hill, Laughed in the sun, and kissed the lovely grass.
— Rupert Brooke
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The sun was like a great visiting presence that stimulated and took its due from all animal energy. When it…
— Willa Cather
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...for those whose favorite season is autumn with its days of cloudless sky, of spacious and clear, far-flung panoramas -…
— Charlton Ogburn
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Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings; Sunward I've climbed, and…
— Unknown Author
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In the depths of every heart, there is a tomb and a dungeon, though the lights, the music, and revelry…
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Habit is habit and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step…
— Mark Twain
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The grace of God, says Luther, "is like a flying summer shower." It has fallen upon more than one land,…
— Alexander MacLaren
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Over my head his arm he flung, Against the world.
— Robert Browning
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Every ordinary thing in your life is a word of God's love: your home, your work, the clothes you wear,…
— Caryll Houselander
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Again the early-morning sun was generous with it's warmth. All the sounds dear to a horseman were around me-the snort…
— Unknown Author
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Human societies as temporally and spatially far-flung as the Mesopotamians, Mayans, and Easter Islanders likely came to ruin by expanding…
— William E. Rees
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I am to be broken. I am to be derided all my life. I am to be cast up and…
— Virginia Woolf
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