Consider incompleteness as a verb.
ANNE CARSONNo need to fear death. There will be a tunnel and light.
More Anne Carson Quotes
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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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Lava bread makes you passionate.
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Madness and witchery as well as bestiality are conditions commonly associated with the use of the female voice in public.
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The man has a theory. The woman has hipbones. Here comes Death.
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To be running breathlessly, but not yet arrived, is itself delightful, a suspended moment of living hope.
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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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If your way of life is writing, then everything that happens becomes a sentence.
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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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Meanwhile music pounded / across hearts opening every valve to the desperate drama of being / a self in a song.
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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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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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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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A refugee population is hungry for language and aware that anything can happen.
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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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What makes life life and not a simple story? Jagged bits moving never still, all along the wall.
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What is the fear inside language? No accident of the body can make it stop burning.
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Philosophy – hopeless. Yet it gives me hope.
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You doubt God? Well more to the point I credit God with the good sense to doubt me. What is mortality after all but divine doubt flashing over us? For an instant God suspends assent and poof! we disappear.
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No one will ever make necessity not happen.
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Existence will not stop until it gets to beauty.
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All myth is an enriched pattern, a two-faced proposition, allowing its operator to say one thing and mean another, to lead a double life.
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Love is a good place to situate our distrust of fake women.
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Time isn’t made of anything. It is an abstraction. Just a meaning that we impose upon motion.
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Philosophers say man forms himself in dialogue.
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We humans seem disastrously in love with this thing (whatever it is) that glitters on the earth– we call it life.
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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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