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If your way of life is writing, then everything that happens becomes a sentence.

Anne Carson

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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Desire Double Gold Love Madness Marriage Rule
A refugee population is hungry for language and aware that anything can happen.
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We participate in the creation of the world by decreating ourselves.
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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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It is easier to tell a story of how people wound one another than of what binds them together.
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If your way of life is writing, then everything that happens becomes a sentence.
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Those nights lying alone are not discontinuous with this cold hectic dawn. It is who I am.
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Up against another human being one’s own procedures take on definition.
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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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Life pulls softly inside your bindings. The pod glows – dear stench.
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One of the principle qualities of pain is that it demands an explanation.
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Demand Explanation Pain Principle Quality
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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It is for God to fix the time who knows no time.
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Philosophy – hopeless. Yet it gives me hope.
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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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Lava bread makes you passionate.
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If your way of life is writing, then everything that happens becomes a sentence.

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