Consider incompleteness as a verb.
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.
More Anne Carson Quotes
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All myth is an enriched pattern, a two-faced proposition, allowing its operator to say one thing and mean another, to lead a double life.
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There is no person without a world.
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We’re talking about the struggle to drag a thought over from the mush of the unconscious into some kind of grammar, syntax, human sense; every attempt means starting over with language. Starting over with accuracy.
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It is for God to fix the time who knows no time.
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It is easier to tell a story of how people wound one another than of what binds them together.
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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.
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Madness and witchery as well as bestiality are conditions commonly associated with the use of the female voice in public.
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One of the principle qualities of pain is that it demands an explanation.
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Life pulls softly inside your bindings. The pod glows – dear stench.
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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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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 humans seem disastrously in love with this thing (whatever it is) that glitters on the earth– we call it life.
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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.
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The man has a theory. The woman has hipbones. Here comes Death.
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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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