You remember too much,” my mother said to me recently. “Why hold onto all that?” And I said, “where can I put it down?
ANNE CARSONOne of the principle qualities of pain is that it demands an explanation.
More Anne Carson Quotes
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Up against another human being one’s own procedures take on definition.
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You 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.
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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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One of the principle qualities of pain is that it demands an explanation.
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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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Existence will not stop until it gets to beauty.
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To live past the end of your myth is a perilous thing.
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Sometimes I dream a sentence and write it down. It’s usually nonsense, but sometimes it seems a key to another world.
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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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What is the fear inside language? No accident of the body can make it stop burning.
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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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Comfortable means gradually more and more flattened down, more and more blunt – less and less sharp and biting into you.
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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 never really got over the fun of making letters.
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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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