No need to fear death. There will be a tunnel and light.
ANNE CARSONI am kind of a curmudgeonly person, so I don’t gravitate to groups or traditions, which is probably just pretentious of me.
More Anne Carson Quotes
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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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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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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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Time isn’t made of anything. It is an abstraction. Just a meaning that we impose upon motion.
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There is no person without a world.
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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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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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What makes life life and not a simple story? Jagged bits moving never still, all along the wall.
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Desire is no light thing.
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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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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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Give me a world, you have taken the world I was.
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Philosophy – hopeless. Yet it gives me hope.
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To live past the end of your myth is a perilous thing.
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We are only midway through the central verse of our youth when we see ourselves begin to blacken. … We had been seduced into thinking that we were immortal and suddenly the affair is over.
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What is the fear inside language? No accident of the body can make it stop burning.
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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 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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When I desire you a part of me is gone.
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To be running breathlessly, but not yet arrived, is itself delightful, a suspended moment of living hope.
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I never really got over the fun of making letters.
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If your way of life is writing, then everything that happens becomes a sentence.
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Life pulls softly inside your bindings. The pod glows – dear stench.
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Do you remember when they taught cursive in schools? I think they don’t anymore. But I still enjoy it – just the physical act and all the – the whole business of making a thing out of language.
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He stood against the wind and let it peel him clean.
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Existence will not stop until it gets to beauty.
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