Lava bread makes you passionate.
ANNE CARSONLove is a good place to situate our distrust of fake women.
More Anne Carson Quotes
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I am a drop of gold he would say I am molten matter returned from the core of earth to tell you interior things.
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You remember too much,” my mother said to me recently. “Why hold onto all that?” And I said, “where can I put it down?
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When I began to be published, people got the idea that I should ‘teach writing,’ which I have no idea how to do and don’t really believe in.
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To live past the end of your myth is a perilous thing.
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One of the principle qualities of pain is that it demands an explanation.
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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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Desire doubled is love and love doubled is madness.
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Comfortable means gradually more and more flattened down, more and more blunt – less and less sharp and biting into you.
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I’ve come to understand that the best one can hope for as a human is to have a relationship with that emptiness where God would be if God were available, but God isn’t.
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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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A page with a poem on it is less attractive than a page with a poem on it and some tea stains.
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Up against another human being one’s own procedures take on definition.
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I don’t read reviews and I don’t know what to do with opinions, so I just lose them. They take up space, they become a process of manufacturing a persona, which I want to avoid.
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Give me a world, you have taken the world I was.
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It is easier to tell a story of how people wound one another than of what binds them together.
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