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.
ANNE CARSONIt is for God to fix the time who knows no time.
More Anne Carson Quotes
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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 takes practice to shave the skin off the light.
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Aristotle says that metaphor causes the mind to experience itself in the act of making a mistake.
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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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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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He stood against the wind and let it peel him clean.
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We humans seem disastrously in love with this thing (whatever it is) that glitters on the earth– we call it life.
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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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Sometimes a journey makes itself necessary.
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What is the fear inside language? No accident of the body can make it stop burning.
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Maybe I could have been good as a drawer if I had done it as much as I did writing, but it’s more scary to draw. It’s more revealing. You can’t disguise yourself in drawing.
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They were two superior eels at the bottom of the tank and they recognized each other like italics.
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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.
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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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The man has a theory. The woman has hipbones. Here comes Death.
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Philosophy – hopeless. Yet it gives me hope.
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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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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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I never had much education in English poetry as such.
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Give me a world, you have taken the world I was.
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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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Philosophers say man forms himself in dialogue.
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What makes life life and not a simple story? Jagged bits moving never still, all along the wall.
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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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Comfortable means gradually more and more flattened down, more and more blunt – less and less sharp and biting into you.
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