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.
ANNE CARSONIt is easier to tell a story of how people wound one another than of what binds them together.
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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I do think I have an ability to record sensual and emotional facts and factoids, to construct a convincing surface of what life feels like, both physical life and emotional life.
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When I began to be published, people got the idea that I should ‘teach writing,’ which I have no idea how to do and don’t really believe in.
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I never really got over the fun of making letters.
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A page with a poem on it is less attractive than a page with a poem on it and some tea stains.
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Here we go mother on the shipless ocean. Pity us, pity the ocean, here we go.
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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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Love is a good place to situate our distrust of fake women.
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We participate in the creation of the world by decreating ourselves.
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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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No one will ever make necessity not happen.
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Love dares the self to leave itself behind, to enter into poverty.
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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 takes practice to shave the skin off the light.
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Myths are stories about people who become too big for their lives temporarily, so that they crash into other lives or brush against gods. In crisis their souls are visible.
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