"I think it would be well, and proper, and obedient, and pure, to grasp your one necessity and not let it go, to dangle from it limp wherever it takes you."

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Annie Dillard

#Life Quotes #Positive Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“The bliss even of a moment still is bliss.”
“I like the desperado aspect of essays, the free lance, that mercenary kind of thing, so I just do it, without asking anyone's permission. I've never written a query letter, I don't pitch pieces, I have no market in mind, I don't spend any time trying to figure out where I might fit in.”

Source : "Loitering: A Conversation with Essayist and Author Charles D'Ambrosio". Interview With Chris Schluep, www.amazonbookreview.com. February 3, 2016.
“The hills of oneâ€™s youth are all mountains”
“God made me an Indian.”
“For whatever is truly wondrous and fearful in man, never yet was put into words or books.”
“The world isn't perfect, and some days it wears you down. You can either accept that, and face it, and be a help to others instead of a hindrance. Or you can decide the rules are too tough and they shouldn't apply to you, and you can ignore them and make things harder for everybody else. Sometimes life is about being sad and doing things anyway. Sometimes it's about being hurt and doing things anyway. The point isn't perfection. The point is doing it anyway.”

Source : Chloe Neill (2012). “Biting Cold: A Chicagoland Vampires Novel”, p.97, Penguin
“My life isn't that dramatic. My dad really loves me, he just can't talk on the phone. He's too crippled and shy, and that's almost harder. He's there and he loves me, and I try and try and try, it's just impossible to have a relationship.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“There is something dark and wintry about the atmosphere of the later Middle Ages.”

Source : Lytton Strachey (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Lytton Strachey (Illustrated)”, p.30, Delphi Classics

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