Desire is no light thing.
ANNE CARSONA refugee population is hungry for language and aware that anything can happen.
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At least half of your mind is always thinking, I’ll be leaving; this won’t last. It’s a good Buddhist attitude. If I were a Buddhist, this would be a great help. As it is, I’m just sad.
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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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Here we go mother on the shipless ocean. Pity us, pity the ocean, here we go.
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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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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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Madness and witchery as well as bestiality are conditions commonly associated with the use of the female voice in public.
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You doubt God? Well more to the point I credit God with the good sense to doubt me. What is mortality after all but divine doubt flashing over us? For an instant God suspends assent and poof! we disappear.
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You used to say. “Desire doubled is love and love doubled is madness.” Madness doubled is marriage I added when the caustic was cool, not intending to produce a golden rule.
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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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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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I mean, every thought starts over, so every expression of a thought has to do the same. every accuracy has to be invented… I feel I am blundering in concepts too fine for me.
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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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Give me a world, you have taken the world I was.
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Lava bread makes you passionate.
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Love is a good place to situate our distrust of fake women.
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Philosophers say man forms himself in dialogue.
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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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Up against another human being one’s own procedures take on definition.
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Words bounce. Words, if you let them, will do what they want to do and what they have to do.
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He was trying to fit this Herakles onto the one he knew.
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No one will ever make necessity not happen.
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I don’t read reviews and I don’t know what to do with opinions, so I just lose them. They take up space, they become a process of manufacturing a persona, which I want to avoid.
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There is no person without a world.
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All human desire is poised on an axis of paradox, absence and presence its poles, love and hate its motive energies.
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My religion makes no sense and does not help me therefore I pursue it.
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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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