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It is easier to tell a story of how people wound one another than of what binds them together.

Anne Carson

Sometimes a journey makes itself necessary.
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Journey Necessary Time
Each night about this time he puts on sadness like a garment and goes on writing.
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Anand Thakur
When I desire you a part of me is gone.
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Anand Thakur
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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Anand Thakur
Give me a world, you have taken the world I was.
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Anand Thakur
If your way of life is writing, then everything that happens becomes a sentence.
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Anand Thakur
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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Anand Thakur
Caught between the tongue and the taste.
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Anand Thakur
You remember too much,” my mother said to me recently. “Why hold onto all that?” And I said, “where can I put it down?
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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.
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Anand Thakur
To live past the end of your myth is a perilous thing.
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Anand Thakur
You can never know enough, never work enough, never use the infinitives and participles oddly enough, never impede the movement harshly enough, never leave the mind quickly enough.
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Anand Thakur
No need to fear death. There will be a tunnel and light.
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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
They were two superior eels at the bottom of the tank and they recognized each other like italics.
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Anand Thakur
There is no person without a world.
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Anand Thakur

It is easier to tell a story of how people wound one another than of what binds them together.

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