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Time isn’t made of anything. It is an abstraction. Just a meaning that we impose upon motion.

Anne Carson

Lava bread makes you passionate.
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Anand Thakur
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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Anand Thakur
A man moves through time. It means nothing except that, like a harpoon, once thrown he will arrive.
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Arrival Man Move Time Willing
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
Love dares the self to leave itself behind, to enter into poverty.
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Dare Leaving Love Poverty
To live past the end of your myth is a perilous thing.
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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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My religion makes no sense and does not help me therefore I pursue it.
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Help Myself Pursue Religion
We humans seem disastrously in love with this thing (whatever it is) that glitters on the earth– we call it life.
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Anand Thakur
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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Aristotle says that metaphor causes the mind to experience itself in the act of making a mistake.
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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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We participate in the creation of the world by decreating ourselves.
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Anand Thakur
Love is a good place to situate our distrust of fake women.
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I am a drop of gold he would say I am molten matter returned from the core of earth to tell you interior things.
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Anand Thakur
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.
ANNE CARSON

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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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