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No one will ever make necessity not happen.

Anne Carson

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.
ANNE CARSON

Anand Thakur
It is for God to fix the time who knows no time.
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Anand Thakur
Madness and witchery as well as bestiality are conditions commonly associated with the use of the female voice in public.
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Condition Female Madness Public Voice Witch
Existence will not stop until it gets to beauty.
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Anand Thakur
Do you remember when they taught cursive in schools? I think they don’t anymore. But I still enjoy it – just the physical act and all the – the whole business of making a thing out of language.
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Anand Thakur
Consider incompleteness as a verb.
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Incomplete One Liner Verb
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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Anand Thakur
Love is a good place to situate our distrust of fake women.
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Anand Thakur
Sometimes a journey makes itself necessary.
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Journey Necessary Time
Philosophers say man forms himself in dialogue.
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Anand Thakur
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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Anand Thakur
He was trying to fit this Herakles onto the one he knew.
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Himself Known Oneself Try
It is easier to tell a story of how people wound one another than of what binds them together.
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Anand Thakur
No one will ever make necessity not happen.
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Necessary Need
They were two superior eels at the bottom of the tank and they recognized each other like italics.
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Anand Thakur
Sometimes I dream a sentence and write it down. It’s usually nonsense, but sometimes it seems a key to another world.
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Anand Thakur
He came after Homer and before Gertrude Stein, a difficult interval for a poet.
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Difficult Interval Poet
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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Anand Thakur
Give me a world, you have taken the world I was.
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Anand Thakur
I never really got over the fun of making letters.
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Anand Thakur
When I desire you a part of me is gone.
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Anand Thakur
We participate in the creation of the world by decreating ourselves.
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Anand Thakur
Making is always a slightly hopeful thing because once you’ve made something, it’ll – the world will be different.
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Anand Thakur
No need to fear death. There will be a tunnel and light.
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Anand Thakur
A man moves through time. It means nothing except that, like a harpoon, once thrown he will arrive.
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Arrival Man Move Time Willing
We are only midway through the central verse of our youth when we see ourselves begin to blacken. … We had been seduced into thinking that we were immortal and suddenly the affair is over.
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Anand Thakur
Words bounce. Words, if you let them, will do what they want to do and what they have to do.
ANNE CARSON

Power Word Yourself

No one will ever make necessity not happen.

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