He was trying to fit this Herakles onto the one he knew.
ANNE CARSONLava bread makes you passionate.
More Anne Carson Quotes
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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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Lava bread makes you passionate.
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We humans seem disastrously in love with this thing (whatever it is) that glitters on the earth– we call it life.
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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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It is for God to fix the time who knows no time.
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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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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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It takes practice to shave the skin off the light.
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If your way of life is writing, then everything that happens becomes a sentence.
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I never had much education in English poetry as such.
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One of the principle qualities of pain is that it demands an explanation.
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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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Here we go mother on the shipless ocean. Pity us, pity the ocean, here we go.
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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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You doubt God? Well more to the point I credit God with the good sense to doubt me. What is mortality after all but divine doubt flashing over us? For an instant God suspends assent and poof! we disappear.
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