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Words bounce. Words, if you let them, will do what they want to do and what they have to do.

Anne Carson

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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I never really got over the fun of making letters.
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Desire doubled is love and love doubled is madness.
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Under the seams runs the pain.
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I am kind of a curmudgeonly person, so I don’t gravitate to groups or traditions, which is probably just pretentious of me.
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What makes life life and not a simple story? Jagged bits moving never still, all along the wall.
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We’re talking about the struggle to drag a thought over from the mush of the unconscious into some kind of grammar, syntax, human sense; every attempt means starting over with language. Starting over with accuracy.
ANNE CARSON

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Words bounce. Words, if you let them, will do what they want to do and what they have to do.
ANNE CARSON

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The man has a theory. The woman has hipbones. Here comes Death.
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Death Man Theory Woman
Time isn’t made of anything. It is an abstraction. Just a meaning that we impose upon motion.
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Love is a good place to situate our distrust of fake women.
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To be running breathlessly, but not yet arrived, is itself delightful, a suspended moment of living hope.
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Arrival Breathe Delight Hope Live Moments Run
Making is always a slightly hopeful thing because once you’ve made something, it’ll – the world will be different.
ANNE CARSON

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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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A refugee population is hungry for language and aware that anything can happen.
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Lava bread makes you passionate.
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