Annie Dillard - Hard Quotes

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You can't test courage cautiously, so I ran hard and waved my arms hard, happy.

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

Annie Dillard
There are no events but thoughts and the heart's hard turning, the heart's slow learning where to love and whom. The rest is merely gossip, and tales for other times.

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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.

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I alternate between thinking of the planet as home - dear and familiar stone hearth and garden - and as a hard land of exile in which we are all sojourners.

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You can serve or you can sing, and wreck your heart in prayer, working the world's hard work.

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The notion of novelist as gifted savage dies hard... if Faulkner was a man of letters like thee and me, why have we not written great novels?

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Evolution loves death more than it loves you or me. This is easy to write, easy to read, and hard to believe.

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