It is easier to tell a story of how people wound one another than of what binds them together.
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Anand Thakur
It is easier to tell a story of how people wound one another than of what binds them together.
ANNE CARSONPhilosophy – hopeless. Yet it gives me hope.
ANNE CARSONI am a drop of gold he would say I am molten matter returned from the core of earth to tell you interior things.
ANNE CARSONMyths 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.
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 CARSONReality is a sound, you have to tune in to it not just keep yelling.
ANNE CARSONNo need to fear death. There will be a tunnel and light.
ANNE CARSONLava bread makes you passionate.
ANNE CARSONGive me a world, you have taken the world I was.
ANNE CARSONYou 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 CARSONYou can never know enough, never work enough, never use the infinitives and participles oddly enough, never impede the movement harshly enough, never leave the mind quickly enough.
ANNE CARSONNo one will ever make necessity not happen.
ANNE CARSONConsider incompleteness as a verb.
ANNE CARSONWe participate in the creation of the world by decreating ourselves.
ANNE CARSONWhen I desire you a part of me is gone.
ANNE CARSONOne of the principle qualities of pain is that it demands an explanation.
ANNE CARSON