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Up against another human being one’s own procedures take on definition.

Anne Carson

When an ecstatic is asked the question, What is it that love dares the self to do? she will answer: Love dares the self to leave itself behind, to enter into poverty.
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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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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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Making is always a slightly hopeful thing because once you’ve made something, it’ll – the world will be different.
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A refugee population is hungry for language and aware that anything can happen.
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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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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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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
If your way of life is writing, then everything that happens becomes a sentence.
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To live past the end of your myth is a perilous thing.
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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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Anand Thakur
Consider incompleteness as a verb.
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Incomplete One Liner Verb
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
Madness and witchery as well as bestiality are conditions commonly associated with the use of the female voice in public.
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Condition Female Madness Public Voice Witch
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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Anand Thakur

Up against another human being one’s own procedures take on definition.

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