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Here we go mother on the shipless ocean. Pity us, pity the ocean, here we go.

Anne Carson

What makes life life and not a simple story? Jagged bits moving never still, all along the wall.
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Anand Thakur
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
Simply do something else and return to it later to find the problem wasn’t a problem at all. Ruptures almost always lead to a stronger project.
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Anand Thakur
Consider incompleteness as a verb.
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Incomplete One Liner Verb
Love is a good place to situate our distrust of fake women.
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Anand Thakur
The man has a theory. The woman has hipbones. Here comes Death.
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Death Man Theory Woman
Philosophers say man forms himself in dialogue.
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Anand Thakur
Love dares the self to leave itself behind, to enter into poverty.
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Dare Leaving Love Poverty
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
Desire is no light thing.
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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
He was trying to fit this Herakles onto the one he knew.
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Himself Known Oneself Try
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
Up against another human being one’s own procedures take on definition.
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Anand Thakur
You remember too much,” my mother said to me recently. “Why hold onto all that?” And I said, “where can I put it down?
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Anand Thakur
Do you remember when they taught cursive in schools? I think they don’t anymore. But I still enjoy it – just the physical act and all the – the whole business of making a thing out of language.
ANNE CARSON

Anand Thakur

Here we go mother on the shipless ocean. Pity us, pity the ocean, here we go.

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