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Why does tragedy exist? Because you are full of rage. Why are you full of rage? Because you are full of grief.

Anne Carson

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’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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No need to fear death. There will be a tunnel and light.
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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 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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Give me a world, you have taken the world I was.
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At least half of your mind is always thinking, I’ll be leaving; this won’t last. It’s a good Buddhist attitude. If I were a Buddhist, this would be a great help. As it is, I’m just sad.
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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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Those nights lying alone are not discontinuous with this cold hectic dawn. It is who I am.
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Making is always a slightly hopeful thing because once you’ve made something, it’ll – the world will be different.
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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
It is easier to tell a story of how people wound one another than of what binds them together.
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Each night about this time he puts on sadness like a garment and goes on writing.
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Desire is no light thing.
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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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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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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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