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
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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Consider incompleteness as a verb.
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It takes practice to shave the skin off the light.
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All myth is an enriched pattern, a two-faced proposition, allowing its operator to say one thing and mean another, to lead a double life.
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Love is a good place to situate our distrust of fake women.
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Aristotle says that metaphor causes the mind to experience itself in the act of making a mistake.
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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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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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Making is always a slightly hopeful thing because once you’ve made something, it’ll – the world will be different.
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Homer must have felt this pressure to come up with an epic poem that would sound totally new to an audience that had loved his previous best-seller.
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No need to fear death. There will be a tunnel and light.
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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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Lava bread makes you passionate.
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Poetry – poiesis means a thing made.
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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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Reality is a sound, you have to tune in to it not just keep yelling.
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