They were two superior eels at the bottom of the tank and they recognized each other like italics.
ANNE CARSONMadness and witchery as well as bestiality are conditions commonly associated with the use of the female voice in public.
More Anne Carson Quotes
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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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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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Under the seams runs the pain.
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You used to say. “Desire doubled is love and love doubled is madness.” Madness doubled is marriage I added when the caustic was cool, not intending to produce a golden rule.
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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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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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If your way of life is writing, then everything that happens becomes a sentence.
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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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You doubt God? Well more to the point I credit God with the good sense to doubt me. What is mortality after all but divine doubt flashing over us? For an instant God suspends assent and poof! we disappear.
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Consider incompleteness as a verb.
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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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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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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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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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