It is for God to fix the time who knows no time.
ANNE CARSONI never really got over the fun of making letters.
More Anne Carson Quotes
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If your way of life is writing, then everything that happens becomes a sentence.
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Everything depends on liking the people and trusting the people. You have to assume that whatever they do will be as good as you want the thing to be and just go ahead with that.
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Simply do something else and return to it later to find the problem wasn’t a problem at all. Ruptures almost always lead to a stronger project.
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Under the seams runs the pain.
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There is no person without a world.
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It is when you are asking about something that you realize you yourself have survived it, and so you must carry it, or fashion it into a thing that carries itself.
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It takes practice to shave the skin off the light.
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Give me a world, you have taken the world I was.
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A man moves through time. It means nothing except that, like a harpoon, once thrown he will arrive.
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You can get used to eating breakfast with a man in a fedora. You can get used to anything, my mother was in the habit of saying.
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To live past the end of your myth is a perilous thing.
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They were two superior eels at the bottom of the tank and they recognized each other like italics.
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Homer must have felt this pressure to come up with an epic poem that would sound totally new to an audience that had loved his previous best-seller.
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I mean, every thought starts over, so every expression of a thought has to do the same. every accuracy has to be invented… I feel I am blundering in concepts too fine for me.
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Philosophy – hopeless. Yet it gives me hope.
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