It is easier to tell a story of how people wound one another than of what binds them together.
ANNE CARSON
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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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Up against another human being one’s own procedures take on definition.
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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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We participate in the creation of the world by decreating ourselves.
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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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A man moves through time. It means nothing except that, like a harpoon, once thrown he will arrive.
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It takes practice to shave the skin off the light.
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I do think I have an ability to record sensual and emotional facts and factoids, to construct a convincing surface of what life feels like, both physical life and emotional life.
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Under the seams runs the pain.
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When I desire you a part of me is gone.
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Philosophers say man forms himself in dialogue.
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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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Love dares the self to leave itself behind, to enter into poverty.
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