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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Anand Thakur
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.
ANNE CARSON
What makes life life and not a simple story? Jagged bits moving never still, all along the wall.
ANNE CARSON
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 CARSON
Lava bread makes you passionate.
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Time isn’t made of anything. It is an abstraction. Just a meaning that we impose upon motion.
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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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I never really got over the fun of making letters.
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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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Aristotle says that metaphor causes the mind to experience itself in the act of making a mistake.
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He was trying to fit this Herakles onto the one he knew.
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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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Making is always a slightly hopeful thing because once you’ve made something, it’ll – the world will be different.
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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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Existence will not stop until it gets to beauty.
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What is the fear inside language? No accident of the body can make it stop burning.
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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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