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

Anne Carson

A page with a poem on it is less attractive than a page with a poem on it and some tea stains.
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Anand Thakur
It is for God to fix the time who knows no time.
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Anand Thakur
What makes life life and not a simple story? Jagged bits moving never still, all along the wall.
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Give me a world, you have taken the world I was.
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Reality is a sound, you have to tune in to it not just keep yelling.
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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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Anand Thakur
We are only midway through the central verse of our youth when we see ourselves begin to blacken. … We had been seduced into thinking that we were immortal and suddenly the affair is over.
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Anand Thakur
Here we go mother on the shipless ocean. Pity us, pity the ocean, here we go.
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Anand Thakur
Sometimes I dream a sentence and write it down. It’s usually nonsense, but sometimes it seems a key to another world.
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Anand Thakur
A man moves through time. It means nothing except that, like a harpoon, once thrown he will arrive.
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Arrival Man Move Time Willing
Desire doubled is love and love doubled is madness.
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Anand Thakur
Love is a good place to situate our distrust of fake women.
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Anand Thakur
Consider incompleteness as a verb.
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Incomplete One Liner Verb
They were two superior eels at the bottom of the tank and they recognized each other like italics.
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Anand Thakur
It is easier to tell a story of how people wound one another than of what binds them together.
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Anand Thakur
Aristotle says that metaphor causes the mind to experience itself in the act of making a mistake.
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Anand Thakur

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

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