My religion makes no sense and does not help me therefore I pursue it.
ANNE CARSONHe was trying to fit this Herakles onto the one he knew.
More Anne Carson Quotes
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The man has a theory. The woman has hipbones. Here comes Death.
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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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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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Desire is no light thing.
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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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It takes practice to shave the skin off the light.
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I never really got over the fun of making letters.
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Sometimes a journey makes itself necessary.
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What makes life life and not a simple story? Jagged bits moving never still, all along the wall.
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Love is a good place to situate our distrust of fake women.
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Myths are stories about people who become too big for their lives temporarily, so that they crash into other lives or brush against gods. In crisis their souls are visible.
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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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A page with a poem on it is less attractive than a page with a poem on it and some tea stains.
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Homer must have felt this pressure to come up with an epic poem that would sound totally new to an audience that had loved his previous best-seller.
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There is no person without a world.
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