One of the 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. The impulse to save something good for a better place later is the signal to spend it now. Something more will arise for later, something better. These things fill from behind, from beneath, like well water. Similarly, the impulse to keep to yourself what you have learned is not only shameful, it is destructive. Anything you do not give freely and abundantly becomes lost to you. You open your safe and find ashes. Annie Dillard
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  2. In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra. - Fran Lebowitz

  3. I had a polynomial once. My doctor removed it. - Michael Grant

  4. I couldn't claim that I was smarter than sixty-five other guys--but the average of sixty-five other guys, certainly! - Richard Feynman

  5. What comes, is called. - Ki Longfellow

More Quotes By Annie Dillard
  1. One of the things that ultimately led me to leave mathematics and go into political science was thinking I could prevent nuclear war.

  2. Someone once said that history has more imagination than all the scenario writers in the Pentagon, and we have a lot of scenario writers here. No one ever wrote a scenario for commercial airliners crashing into the World Trade Center.

  3. History is just littered with problems that were solved that were supposed to be impossible.

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