You can get used to eating breakfast with a man in a fedora. You can get used to anything, my mother was in the habit of saying.
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You can get used to eating breakfast with a man in a fedora. You can get used to anything, my mother was in the habit of saying.
ANNE CARSONIf your way of life is writing, then everything that happens becomes a sentence.
ANNE CARSONComfortable means gradually more and more flattened down, more and more blunt – less and less sharp and biting into you.
ANNE CARSONConsider incompleteness as a verb.
ANNE CARSONReality is a sound, you have to tune in to it not just keep yelling.
ANNE CARSONAll human desire is poised on an axis of paradox, absence and presence its poles, love and hate its motive energies.
ANNE CARSONHe was trying to fit this Herakles onto the one he knew.
ANNE CARSONNo need to fear death. There will be a tunnel and light.
ANNE CARSONWhy does tragedy exist? Because you are full of rage. Why are you full of rage? Because you are full of grief.
ANNE CARSONAt 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.
ANNE CARSONYou 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.
ANNE CARSONHe stood against the wind and let it peel him clean.
ANNE CARSONI never really got over the fun of making letters.
ANNE CARSONA refugee population is hungry for language and aware that anything can happen.
ANNE CARSONI 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.
ANNE CARSONWhat is the fear inside language? No accident of the body can make it stop burning.
ANNE CARSON