Reality is a sound, you have to tune in to it not just keep yelling.
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Anand Thakur
Reality is a sound, you have to tune in to it not just keep yelling.
ANNE CARSONEverything 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.
ANNE CARSONHe was trying to fit this Herakles onto the one he knew.
ANNE CARSONTime isn’t made of anything. It is an abstraction. Just a meaning that we impose upon motion.
ANNE CARSONThe man has a theory. The woman has hipbones. Here comes Death.
ANNE CARSONThere is no person without a world.
ANNE CARSONMaking is always a slightly hopeful thing because once you’ve made something, it’ll – the world will be different.
ANNE CARSONLove dares the self to leave itself behind, to enter into poverty.
ANNE CARSONI don’t read reviews and I don’t know what to do with opinions, so I just lose them. They take up space, they become a process of manufacturing a persona, which I want to avoid.
ANNE CARSONIt is easier to tell a story of how people wound one another than of what binds them together.
ANNE CARSONHere we go mother on the shipless ocean. Pity us, pity the ocean, here we go.
ANNE CARSONConsider incompleteness as a verb.
ANNE CARSONLove is a good place to situate our distrust of fake women.
ANNE CARSONUp against another human being one’s own procedures take on definition.
ANNE CARSONYou 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.
ANNE CARSONWhen 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.
ANNE CARSON