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.
ANNE CARSONLove is a good place to situate our distrust of fake women.
More Anne Carson Quotes
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There is no person without a world.
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Love is a good place to situate our distrust of fake women.
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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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It is for God to fix the time who knows no time.
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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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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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A man moves through time. It means nothing except that, like a harpoon, once thrown he will arrive.
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Each night about this time he puts on sadness like a garment and goes on writing.
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I never had much education in English poetry as such.
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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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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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To live past the end of your myth is a perilous thing.
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Philosophy – hopeless. Yet it gives me hope.
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We participate in the creation of the world by decreating ourselves.
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My religion makes no sense and does not help me therefore I pursue it.
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