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A refugee population is hungry for language and aware that anything can happen.

Anne Carson

Words bounce. Words, if you let them, will do what they want to do and what they have to do.
ANNE CARSON

Power Word Yourself
We participate in the creation of the world by decreating ourselves.
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Anand Thakur
Sometimes a journey makes itself necessary.
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Journey Necessary Time
Up against another human being one’s own procedures take on definition.
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Anand Thakur
Love is a good place to situate our distrust of fake women.
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Anand Thakur
Consider incompleteness as a verb.
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Incomplete One Liner Verb
He was trying to fit this Herakles onto the one he knew.
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Himself Known Oneself Try
I never really got over the fun of making letters.
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Anand Thakur
What makes life life and not a simple story? Jagged bits moving never still, all along the wall.
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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
To be running breathlessly, but not yet arrived, is itself delightful, a suspended moment of living hope.
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Arrival Breathe Delight Hope Live Moments Run
Madness and witchery as well as bestiality are conditions commonly associated with the use of the female voice in public.
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Condition Female Madness Public Voice Witch
The man has a theory. The woman has hipbones. Here comes Death.
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Death Man Theory Woman
Reality is a sound, you have to tune in to it not just keep yelling.
ANNE CARSON

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

Anand Thakur
No one will ever make necessity not happen.
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Necessary Need

A refugee population is hungry for language and aware that anything can happen.

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