All myth is an enriched pattern, a two-faced proposition, allowing its operator to say one thing and mean another, to lead a double life.
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Anand Thakur
All myth is an enriched pattern, a two-faced proposition, allowing its operator to say one thing and mean another, to lead a double life.
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Under the seams runs the pain.
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All human desire is poised on an axis of paradox, absence and presence its poles, love and hate its motive energies.
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He stood against the wind and let it peel him clean.
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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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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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We participate in the creation of the world by decreating ourselves.
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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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A page with a poem on it is less attractive than a page with a poem on it and some tea stains.
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We are only midway through the central verse of our youth when we see ourselves begin to blacken. … We had been seduced into thinking that we were immortal and suddenly the affair is over.
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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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What is the fear inside language? No accident of the body can make it stop burning.
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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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I never really got over the fun of making letters.
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My religion makes no sense and does not help me therefore I pursue it.
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Here we go mother on the shipless ocean. Pity us, pity the ocean, here we go.
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