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.
ANNE CARSONCaught between the tongue and the taste.
More Anne Carson Quotes
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At least half of your mind is always thinking, I’ll be leaving; this won’t last. It’s a good Buddhist attitude. If I were a Buddhist, this would be a great help. As it is, I’m just sad.
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Desire doubled is love and love doubled is madness.
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What makes life life and not a simple story? Jagged bits moving never still, all along the wall.
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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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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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Under the seams runs the pain.
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All myth is an enriched pattern, a two-faced proposition, allowing its operator to say one thing and mean another, to lead a double life.
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Existence will not stop until it gets to beauty.
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Love is a good place to situate our distrust of fake women.
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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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Could you visit me in dreams? That would cheer me. Sweet to see friends in the night, however short the time.
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The man has a theory. The woman has hipbones. Here comes Death.
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When I desire you a part of me is gone.
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Philosophers say man forms himself in dialogue.
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Why does tragedy exist? Because you are full of rage. Why are you full of rage? Because you are full of grief.
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