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Give me a world, you have taken the world I was.

Anne Carson

A refugee population is hungry for language and aware that anything can happen.
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Anand Thakur
He stood against the wind and let it peel him clean.
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Cleaning Himself Wind
Aristotle says that metaphor causes the mind to experience itself in the act of making a mistake.
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Anand Thakur
Meanwhile music pounded / across hearts opening every valve to the desperate drama of being / a self in a song.
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Anand Thakur
It is for God to fix the time who knows no time.
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Anand Thakur
Comfortable means gradually more and more flattened down, more and more blunt – less and less sharp and biting into you.
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Anand Thakur
Sometimes a journey makes itself necessary.
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Journey Necessary Time
Reality is a sound, you have to tune in to it not just keep yelling.
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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.
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Anand Thakur
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
No one will ever make necessity not happen.
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Necessary Need
You can get used to eating breakfast with a man in a fedora. You can get used to anything, my mother was in the habit of saying.
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Eat Habit Man Mom Talk Yourself
Each night about this time he puts on sadness like a garment and goes on writing.
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Anand Thakur
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
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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Anand Thakur
Consider incompleteness as a verb.
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Incomplete One Liner Verb

Give me a world, you have taken the world I was.

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