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Love is a good place to situate our distrust of fake women.

Anne Carson

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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Anand Thakur
Sometimes a journey makes itself necessary.
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Journey Necessary Time
No one will ever make necessity not happen.
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Necessary Need
We participate in the creation of the world by decreating ourselves.
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Anand Thakur
They were two superior eels at the bottom of the tank and they recognized each other like italics.
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Anand Thakur
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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Anand Thakur
Lava bread makes you passionate.
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Anand Thakur
One of the principle qualities of pain is that it demands an explanation.
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Demand Explanation Pain Principle Quality
My religion makes no sense and does not help me therefore I pursue it.
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Help Myself Pursue Religion
Words bounce. Words, if you let them, will do what they want to do and what they have to do.
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Power Word Yourself
The self forms at the edge of desire, and a science of self arises in the effort to leave that self behind.
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Behind Desire Edge Effort Form Leaving
It is for God to fix the time who knows no time.
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Anand Thakur
When 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.
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Anand Thakur
Up against another human being one’s own procedures take on definition.
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Anand Thakur
I am a drop of gold he would say I am molten matter returned from the core of earth to tell you interior things.
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Anand Thakur
Here we go mother on the shipless ocean. Pity us, pity the ocean, here we go.
ANNE CARSON

Anand Thakur

Love is a good place to situate our distrust of fake women.

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