At least half of your mind is always thinking, I’ll be leaving; this won’t last. It’s a good Buddhist attitude. If I were a Buddhist, this would be a great help. As it is, I’m just sad.
ANNE CARSONMy religion makes no sense and does not help me therefore I pursue it.
More Anne Carson Quotes
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He was trying to fit this Herakles onto the one he knew.
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When I desire you a part of me is gone.
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Lava bread makes you passionate.
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To live past the end of your myth is a perilous thing.
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It is for God to fix the time who knows no time.
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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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Comfortable means gradually more and more flattened down, more and more blunt – less and less sharp and biting into you.
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We participate in the creation of the world by decreating ourselves.
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Philosophy – hopeless. Yet it gives me hope.
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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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I 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.
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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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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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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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Sometimes I dream a sentence and write it down. It’s usually nonsense, but sometimes it seems a key to another world.
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