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I am a drop of gold he would say I am molten matter returned from the core of earth to tell you interior things.

Anne Carson

Madness and witchery as well as bestiality are conditions commonly associated with the use of the female voice in public.
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Condition Female Madness Public Voice Witch
No one will ever make necessity not happen.
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Necessary Need
Everything depends on liking the people and trusting the people. You have to assume that whatever they do will be as good as you want the thing to be and just go ahead with that.
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Anand Thakur
Here we go mother on the shipless ocean. Pity us, pity the ocean, here we go.
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Anand Thakur
He stood against the wind and let it peel him clean.
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Cleaning Himself Wind
Why does tragedy exist? Because you are full of rage. Why are you full of rage? Because you are full of grief.
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Angry Existence Grief Tragedy Yourself
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
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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Anand Thakur
To be running breathlessly, but not yet arrived, is itself delightful, a suspended moment of living hope.
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Arrival Breathe Delight Hope Live Moments Run
Consider incompleteness as a verb.
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Incomplete One Liner Verb
What is the fear inside language? No accident of the body can make it stop burning.
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Accident Body Burn Fear Language
Up against another human being one’s own procedures take on definition.
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Anand Thakur
Meanwhile music pounded / across hearts opening every valve to the desperate drama of being / a self in a song.
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Anand Thakur
Making is always a slightly hopeful thing because once you’ve made something, it’ll – the world will be different.
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Anand Thakur
Existence will not stop until it gets to beauty.
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Anand Thakur
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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Anand Thakur

I am a drop of gold he would say I am molten matter returned from the core of earth to tell you interior things.

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