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Spend the afternoon. You can't take it with you.

Spend the afternoon. You can't take it with you.

Annie Dillard

Inspirational, Inspiring, Time

Annie Dillard (2011). “Pilgrim at Tinker Creek”, p.274, Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd

Why do you never find anything written about that idiosyncratic thought you advert to, about your fascination with something no one else understands? Because it is up to you. There is something you find interesting, for a reason hard to explain. It is hard to explain because you have never read it on any page; there you begin. You were made and set here to give voice to this, your own astonishment.

Annie Dillard

Inspirational, Voice, Interesting

Annie Dillard (2016). “The Abundance”, p.82, Canongate Books

There is no shortage of good days. It is good lives that are hard to come by.

Annie Dillard

Inspirational, Good Life, Good Day

Experiencing the present purely is being empty and hollow; you catch grace as a man fills his cup under a waterfall.

Annie Dillard

Inspirational, Life, Time

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.

Annie Dillard

Inspirational, Life, Book

Annie Dillard (2016). “The Abundance”, p.88, Canongate Books