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A refugee population is hungry for language and aware that anything can happen.

Anne Carson

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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Existence will not stop until it gets to beauty.
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No need to fear death. There will be a tunnel and light.
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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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Give me a world, you have taken the world I was.
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What is the fear inside language? No accident of the body can make it stop burning.
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Accident Body Burn Fear Language
Lava bread makes you passionate.
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Words bounce. Words, if you let them, will do what they want to do and what they have to do.
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Power Word Yourself
The self forms at the edge of desire, and a science of self arises in the effort to leave that self behind.
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Behind Desire Edge Effort Form Leaving
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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Anand Thakur
Aristotle says that metaphor causes the mind to experience itself in the act of making a mistake.
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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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One of the principle qualities of pain is that it demands an explanation.
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Demand Explanation Pain Principle Quality
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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Anand Thakur
Love is a good place to situate our distrust of fake women.
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