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The sensation of writing a book is the sensation of spinning, blinded by love and daring. It is the sensation of a stunt pilot's turning barrel rolls, or an inchworm's blind rearing from a stem in search of a route. At its worst, it feels like alligator wrestling, at the level of the sentence.
- Annie Dillard
#Blind
#Love
#Search
#Worst
#Writing
There is no shortage of good days. It is good lives that are hard to come by.
- Annie Dillard
#Come
#Days
#Good
#Hard
#Shortage
The writer studies literature, not the world. He is careful of what he reads, for that is what he will write.
- Annie Dillard
#Careful
#He
#Literature
#Will
#World
Appealing workplaces are to be avoided. One wants a room with no view, so imagination can meet memory in the dark.
- Annie Dillard
#Dark
#Imagination
#Memory
#Room
#View
Buddhism notes that it is always a mistake to think your soul can go it alone.
- Annie Dillard
#Alone
#Always
#Go
#Mistake
#Soul
The dedicated life is worth living. You must give with your whole heart.
- Annie Dillard
#Heart
#Life
#Living
#Worth Living
#Worth
People love pretty much the same things best. A writer looking for subjects inquires not after what he loves best, but after what he alone loves at all.
- Annie Dillard
#Alone
#Best
#Looking
#Love
#People
It is ironic that the one thing that all religions recognize as separating us from our creator, our very self-consciousness, is also the one thing that divides us from our fellow creatures. It was a bitter birthday present from evolution.
- Annie Dillard
#All Religions
#Birthday
#Evolution
#Us
Aim for the chopping block. If you aim for the wood, you will have nothing. Aim past the wood, aim through the wood; aim for the chopping block.
- Annie Dillard
#Aim
#Nothing
#Past
#Will
#Wood
I can't dance anymore. Total knee replacements. I can't do anything anymore.
- Annie Dillard
#Anymore
#Anything
#Dance
#Knee
#Total
God gave me a talent to draw. I 'owed' it to him to develop the talent.
- Annie Dillard
#Develop
#Gave
#God
#Me
#Talent
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
#Belief
#Desk
#Engine
#Gears
#Work
You can't test courage cautiously.
- Annie Dillard
#Courage
#Test
#You
There is a muscular energy in sunlight corresponding to the spiritual energy of wind.
- Annie Dillard
#Energy
#Environmental
#Spiritual
#Wind
How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.
- Annie Dillard
#Course
#Days
#How
#Our
#Spend
As soon as beauty is sought not from religion and love, but for pleasure, it degrades the seeker.
- Annie Dillard
#Beauty
#Love
#Pleasure
#Religion
#Soon
Write as if you were dying. At the same time, assume you write for an audience consisting solely of terminal patients. That is, after all, the case. What would you begin writing if you knew you would die soon? What could you say to a dying person that would not enrage by its triviality?
- Annie Dillard
#Audience
#Die
#Dying
#Person
#Time
Crystals grew inside rock like arithmetic flowers. They lengthened and spread, added plane to plane in an awed and perfect obedience to an absolute geometry that even stones - maybe only the stones - understood.
- Annie Dillard
#Geometry
#Like
#Obedience
#Perfect
#Rock
I would like to learn, or remember, how to live.
- Annie Dillard
#Education
#Learn
#Like
#Live
#Remember
A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is a scaffolding on which a worker can stand and labor with both hands at sections of time.
- Annie Dillard
#Chaos
#Days
#Hands
#Labor
#Stand
#Time
Spend the afternoon. You can't take it with you.
- Annie Dillard
#Afternoon
#Spend
#Take
#You
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
#God
#Hell
#Know
#Me
#Sin
The surest sign of age is loneliness.
- Annie Dillard
#Age
#Loneliness
#Sign
#Surest
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