Comfortable means gradually more and more flattened down, more and more blunt – less and less sharp and biting into you.
ANNE CARSONNo one will ever make necessity not happen.
More Anne Carson Quotes
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Desire doubled is love and love doubled is madness.
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Consider incompleteness as a verb.
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At least half of your mind is always thinking, I’ll be leaving; this won’t last. It’s a good Buddhist attitude. If I were a Buddhist, this would be a great help. As it is, I’m just sad.
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My religion makes no sense and does not help me therefore I pursue it.
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The man has a theory. The woman has hipbones. Here comes Death.
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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.
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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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He was trying to fit this Herakles onto the one he knew.
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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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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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Why does tragedy exist? Because you are full of rage. Why are you full of rage? Because you are full of grief.
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I never had much education in English poetry as such.
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Love is a good place to situate our distrust of fake women.
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Lava bread makes you passionate.
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Could you visit me in dreams? That would cheer me. Sweet to see friends in the night, however short the time.
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