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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Anand Thakur
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.
ANNE CARSON
He stood against the wind and let it peel him clean.
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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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Up against another human being one’s own procedures take on definition.
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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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Consider incompleteness as a verb.
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I never really got over the fun of making letters.
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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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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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What makes life life and not a simple story? Jagged bits moving never still, all along the wall.
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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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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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Life pulls softly inside your bindings. The pod glows – dear stench.
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To live past the end of your myth is a perilous thing.
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Lava bread makes you passionate.
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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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