Philosophers say man forms himself in dialogue.
ANNE CARSONMaking is always a slightly hopeful thing because once you’ve made something, it’ll – the world will be different.
More Anne Carson Quotes
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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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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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He was trying to fit this Herakles onto the one he knew.
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A man moves through time. It means nothing except that, like a harpoon, once thrown he will arrive.
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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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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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The words we read and words we write never say exactly what we mean. The people we love are never just as we desire them. The two symbols never perfectly match. Eros is in between.
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To be running breathlessly, but not yet arrived, is itself delightful, a suspended moment of living hope.
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The man has a theory. The woman has hipbones. Here comes Death.
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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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We are only midway through the central verse of our youth when we see ourselves begin to blacken. … We had been seduced into thinking that we were immortal and suddenly the affair is over.
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Life pulls softly inside your bindings. The pod glows – dear stench.
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Do you remember when they taught cursive in schools? I think they don’t anymore. But I still enjoy it – just the physical act and all the – the whole business of making a thing out of language.
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One of the principle qualities of pain is that it demands an explanation.
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My religion makes no sense and does not help me therefore I pursue it.
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