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One of the principle qualities of pain is that it demands an explanation.

Anne Carson

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.
ANNE CARSON

Anand Thakur
Consider incompleteness as a verb.
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Incomplete One Liner Verb
Under the seams runs the pain.
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Anand Thakur
Life pulls softly inside your bindings. The pod glows – dear stench.
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Anand Thakur
Love dares the self to leave itself behind, to enter into poverty.
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Dare Leaving Love Poverty
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
Desire doubled is love and love doubled is madness.
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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
It is when you are asking about something that you realize you yourself have survived it, and so you must carry it, or fashion it into a thing that carries itself.
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Anand Thakur
If your way of life is writing, then everything that happens becomes a sentence.
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Anand Thakur
Lava bread makes you passionate.
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Anand Thakur
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
No one will ever make necessity not happen.
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Necessary Need
No need to fear death. There will be a tunnel and light.
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Anand Thakur
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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Eat Habit Man Mom Talk Yourself
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.
ANNE CARSON

Anand Thakur

One of the principle qualities of pain is that it demands an explanation.

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