You remember too much,” my mother said to me recently. “Why hold onto all that?” And I said, “where can I put it down?
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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Philosophers say man forms himself in dialogue.
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Sometimes a journey makes itself necessary.
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Consider incompleteness as a verb.
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Caught between the tongue and the taste.
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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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Madness and witchery as well as bestiality are conditions commonly associated with the use of the female voice in public.
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It takes practice to shave the skin off the light.
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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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Words bounce. Words, if you let them, will do what they want to do and what they have to do.
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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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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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One of the principle qualities of pain is that it demands an explanation.
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Here we go mother on the shipless ocean. Pity us, pity the ocean, here we go.
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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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