Caught between the tongue and the taste.
ANNE CARSONPhilosophy – hopeless. Yet it gives me hope.
More Anne Carson Quotes
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Give me a world, you have taken the world I was.
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Love is a good place to situate our distrust of fake women.
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I do think I have an ability to record sensual and emotional facts and factoids, to construct a convincing surface of what life feels like, both physical life and emotional life.
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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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Here we go mother on the shipless ocean. Pity us, pity the ocean, here we go.
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He was trying to fit this Herakles onto the one he knew.
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Love dares the self to leave itself behind, to enter into poverty.
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One of the principle qualities of pain is that it demands an explanation.
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Up against another human being one’s own procedures take on definition.
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No need to fear death. There will be a tunnel and light.
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Maybe I could have been good as a drawer if I had done it as much as I did writing, but it’s more scary to draw. It’s more revealing. You can’t disguise yourself in drawing.
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The man has a theory. The woman has hipbones. Here comes Death.
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You can never know enough, never work enough, never use the infinitives and participles oddly enough, never impede the movement harshly enough, never leave the mind quickly enough.
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Reality is a sound, you have to tune in to it not just keep yelling.
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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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