No need to fear death. There will be a tunnel and light.
ANNE CARSONHe was trying to fit this Herakles onto the one he knew.
More Anne Carson Quotes
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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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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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They were two superior eels at the bottom of the tank and they recognized each other like italics.
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One of the principle qualities of pain is that it demands an explanation.
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The words we read and words we write never say exactly what we mean. The people we love are never just as we desire them. The two symbols never perfectly match. Eros is in between.
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Comfortable means gradually more and more flattened down, more and more blunt – less and less sharp and biting into you.
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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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Time isn’t made of anything. It is an abstraction. Just a meaning that we impose upon motion.
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Desire doubled is love and love doubled is madness.
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Sometimes a journey makes itself necessary.
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Simply do something else and return to it later to find the problem wasn’t a problem at all. Ruptures almost always lead to a stronger project.
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Lava bread makes you passionate.
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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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My religion makes no sense and does not help me therefore I pursue it.
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