It is when you are asking about something that you realize you yourself have survived it, and so you must carry it, or fashion it into a thing that carries itself.
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Anand Thakur
It is when you are asking about something that you realize you yourself have survived it, and so you must carry it, or fashion it into a thing that carries itself.
ANNE CARSON
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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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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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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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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Lava bread makes you passionate.
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There is no person without a world.
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Love is a good place to situate our distrust of fake women.
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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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Here we go mother on the shipless ocean. Pity us, pity the ocean, here we go.
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Up against another human being one’s own procedures take on definition.
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We participate in the creation of the world by decreating ourselves.
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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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Meanwhile music pounded / across hearts opening every valve to the desperate drama of being / a self in a song.
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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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Each night about this time he puts on sadness like a garment and goes on writing.
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