Comfortable means gradually more and more flattened down, more and more blunt – less and less sharp and biting into you.
ANNE CARSONOne of the principle qualities of pain is that it demands an explanation.
More Anne Carson Quotes
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No one will ever make necessity not happen.
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Reality is a sound, you have to tune in to it not just keep yelling.
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You can never know enough, never work enough, never use the infinitives and participles oddly enough, never impede the movement harshly enough, never leave the mind quickly enough.
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The words we read and words we write never say exactly what we mean. The people we love are never just as we desire them. The two symbols never perfectly match. Eros is in between.
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Give me a world, you have taken the world I was.
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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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No need to fear death. There will be a tunnel and light.
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The self forms at the edge of desire, and a science of self arises in the effort to leave that self behind.
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We participate in the creation of the world by decreating ourselves.
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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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One of the principle qualities of pain is that it demands an explanation.
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He stood against the wind and let it peel him clean.
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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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They were two superior eels at the bottom of the tank and they recognized each other like italics.
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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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