Give me a world, you have taken the world I was.
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Anand Thakur
Give me a world, you have taken the world I was.
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They were two superior eels at the bottom of the tank and they recognized each other like italics.
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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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Meanwhile music pounded / across hearts opening every valve to the desperate drama of being / a self in a song.
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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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Up against another human being one’s own procedures take on definition.
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Homer must have felt this pressure to come up with an epic poem that would sound totally new to an audience that had loved his previous best-seller.
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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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Those nights lying alone are not discontinuous with this cold hectic dawn. It is who I am.
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What is the fear inside language? No accident of the body can make it stop burning.
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The words we read and words we write never say exactly what we mean. The people we love are never just as we desire them. The two symbols never perfectly match. Eros is in between.
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Love is a good place to situate our distrust of fake women.
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Existence will not stop until it gets to beauty.
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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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A man moves through time. It means nothing except that, like a harpoon, once thrown he will arrive.
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If your way of life is writing, then everything that happens becomes a sentence.
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