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.
ANNE CARSONTo be running breathlessly, but not yet arrived, is itself delightful, a suspended moment of living hope.
More Anne Carson Quotes
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A refugee population is hungry for language and aware that anything can happen.
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When I desire you a part of me is gone.
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Give me a world, you have taken the world I was.
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Reality is a sound, you have to tune in to it not just keep yelling.
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It takes practice to shave the skin off the light.
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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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Desire doubled is love and love doubled is madness.
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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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The man has a theory. The woman has hipbones. Here comes Death.
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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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One of the principle qualities of pain is that it demands an explanation.
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What is the fear inside language? No accident of the body can make it stop burning.
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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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You can never know enough, never work enough, never use the infinitives and participles oddly enough, never impede the movement harshly enough, never leave the mind quickly enough.
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