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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.

Anne Carson

Sometimes a journey makes itself necessary.
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Journey Necessary Time
When an ecstatic is asked the question, What is it that love dares the self to do? she will answer: Love dares the self to leave itself behind, to enter into poverty.
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Making is always a slightly hopeful thing because once you’ve made something, it’ll – the world will be different.
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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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Arrival Man Move Time Willing
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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Existence will not stop until it gets to beauty.
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Give me a world, you have taken the world I was.
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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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Condition Female Madness Public Voice Witch
You remember too much,” my mother said to me recently. “Why hold onto all that?” And I said, “where can I put it down?
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What is the fear inside language? No accident of the body can make it stop burning.
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Accident Body Burn Fear Language
Love is a good place to situate our distrust of fake women.
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Consider incompleteness as a verb.
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Incomplete One Liner Verb
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.
ANNE CARSON

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