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Reality is a sound, you have to tune in to it not just keep yelling.

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
What makes life life and not a simple story? Jagged bits moving never still, all along the wall.
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Anand Thakur
Desire doubled is love and love doubled is madness.
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Anand Thakur
A refugee population is hungry for language and aware that anything can happen.
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Anand Thakur
It takes practice to shave the skin off the light.
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Anand Thakur
No one will ever make necessity not happen.
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Necessary Need
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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Anand Thakur
Give me a world, you have taken the world I was.
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Anand Thakur
A man moves through time. It means nothing except that, like a harpoon, once thrown he will arrive.
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Arrival Man Move Time Willing
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
When I desire you a part of me is gone.
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Anand Thakur
Love is a good place to situate our distrust of fake women.
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Anand Thakur
Each night about this time he puts on sadness like a garment and goes on writing.
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Anand Thakur
Life pulls softly inside your bindings. The pod glows – dear stench.
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Anand Thakur
Comfortable means gradually more and more flattened down, more and more blunt – less and less sharp and biting into you.
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Anand Thakur
You remember too much,” my mother said to me recently. “Why hold onto all that?” And I said, “where can I put it down?
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Anand Thakur

Reality is a sound, you have to tune in to it not just keep yelling.

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