It is easier to tell a story of how people wound one another than of what binds them together.
ANNE CARSONMy religion makes no sense and does not help me therefore I pursue it.
More Anne Carson Quotes
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My religion makes no sense and does not help me therefore I pursue it.
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If your way of life is writing, then everything that happens becomes a sentence.
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One of the principle qualities of pain is that it demands an explanation.
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A refugee population is hungry for language and aware that anything can happen.
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There is no person without a world.
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We participate in the creation of the world by decreating ourselves.
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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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Love is a good place to situate our distrust of fake women.
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Maybe I could have been good as a drawer if I had done it as much as I did writing, but it’s more scary to draw. It’s more revealing. You can’t disguise yourself in drawing.
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Consider incompleteness as a verb.
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Life pulls softly inside your bindings. The pod glows – dear stench.
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Everything depends on liking the people and trusting the people. You have to assume that whatever they do will be as good as you want the thing to be and just go ahead with that.
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Under the seams runs the pain.
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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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Love dares the self to leave itself behind, to enter into poverty.
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