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.
ANNE CARSONEverything 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.
More Anne Carson Quotes
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One of the principle qualities of pain is that it demands an explanation.
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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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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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Love is a good place to situate our distrust of fake women.
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When I desire you a part of me is gone.
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Comfortable means gradually more and more flattened down, more and more blunt – less and less sharp and biting into you.
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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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Under the seams runs the pain.
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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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What makes life life and not a simple story? Jagged bits moving never still, all along the wall.
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I am kind of a curmudgeonly person, so I don’t gravitate to groups or traditions, which is probably just pretentious of me.
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Love dares the self to leave itself behind, to enter into poverty.
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Aristotle says that metaphor causes the mind to experience itself in the act of making a mistake.
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Lava bread makes you passionate.
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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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What is the fear inside language? No accident of the body can make it stop burning.
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We participate in the creation of the world by decreating ourselves.
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The man has a theory. The woman has hipbones. Here comes Death.
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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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I mean, every thought starts over, so every expression of a thought has to do the same. every accuracy has to be invented… I feel I am blundering in concepts too fine for me.
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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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Could you visit me in dreams? That would cheer me. Sweet to see friends in the night, however short the time.
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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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Making is always a slightly hopeful thing because once you’ve made something, it’ll – the world will be different.
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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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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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