"Open your eyes and see what you can……" — Anthony Doerr

"Open your eyes and see what you can with them before they close forever."

— Anthony Doerr

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30 Quotes by Anthony Doerr

Anthony Doerr has 30 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

My sister-in-law is a painter, and I'll say, how long did it take you to paint that painting. She'll say,…
I guess whatever maturity is there may be there because I've been keeping a journal forever. In high school my…
Anyone who has spent a few nights in a tent during a storm can tell you: The world doesn't care…
Here's what I mean by the miracle of language. When you're falling into a good book, exactly as you might…
Time is a slippery thing: lose hold of it once, and its string might sail out of your hands forever.
Leave home, leave the country, leave the familiar. Only then can routine experience--buying bread, eating vegetables, even saying hello--become new…
We all come into existence as a single cell, smaller than a speck of dust. Much smaller. Divide. Multiply. Add…
I used to think...that I had to be careful with how much I lived. As if life was a pocketful…
The easier an experience, or the more entrenched, or the more familiar, the fainter our sensation of it becomes. This…
I do fish. I think there is a connection between thinking and fishing mostly because you spend a lot of…
So how, children, does the brain, which lives without a spark of light, build for us a world full of…
My preference is for prose with more silence in it, language that contains more pockets of strangeness.

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It's a brilliant surface in that sunlight. The horizon seems quite close to you because the curvature is so much… — Neil Armstrong
I have always drawn strength from being close to home. — Arthur Ashe
From my close observation of writers... they fall into two groups: 1) those who bleed copiously and visibly at any… — Isaac Asimov
Everyone likes birds. What wild creature is more accessible to our eyes and ears, as close to us and everyone… — David Attenborough
Time is compressed like the fist I close on my knee... I hold inside it the clues and solutions and… — Margaret Atwood
Because we can't escape our ancient hunger to live close to nature, we encircle the house with lawns and gardens,… — Diane Ackerman
What friends or kindred can be so close and intimate as the powers of our soul, which, whether we will… — Teresa of Avila
A man's illness is his private territory and, no matter how much he loves you and how close you are,… — Lauren Bacall
I want to be very close to someone I respect and admire and have somebody who feels the same way… — Richard Bach
Truth is a good dog; but always beware of barking too close to the heels of an error, lest you… — Francis Bacon
Completeness? Happiness? These words don't come close to describing my emotions. There truly is nothing I can say to capture… — Anita Baker
I'm not an actor that tends to care. I don't ask 'Is this a close up? Is this a master?… — Christian Bale

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