The self forms at the edge of desire, and a science of self arises in the effort to leave that self behind.
ANNE CARSONYou remember too much,” my mother said to me recently. “Why hold onto all that?” And I said, “where can I put it down?
More Anne Carson Quotes
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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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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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A man moves through time. It means nothing except that, like a harpoon, once thrown he will arrive.
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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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It is easier to tell a story of how people wound one another than of what binds them together.
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The man has a theory. The woman has hipbones. Here comes Death.
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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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You can never know enough, never work enough, never use the infinitives and participles oddly enough, never impede the movement harshly enough, never leave the mind quickly enough.
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What is the fear inside language? No accident of the body can make it stop burning.
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Love dares the self to leave itself behind, to enter into poverty.
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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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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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Philosophers say man forms himself in dialogue.
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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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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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