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.
ANNE CARSONYou can get used to eating breakfast with a man in a fedora. You can get used to anything, my mother was in the habit of saying.
More Anne Carson Quotes
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A man moves through time. It means nothing except that, like a harpoon, once thrown he will arrive.
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Up against another human being one’s own procedures take on definition.
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Consider incompleteness as a verb.
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One of the principle qualities of pain is that it demands an explanation.
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Caught between the tongue and the taste.
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He was trying to fit this Herakles onto the one he knew.
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Those nights lying alone are not discontinuous with this cold hectic dawn. It is who I am.
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My religion makes no sense and does not help me therefore I pursue it.
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You used to say. “Desire doubled is love and love doubled is madness.” Madness doubled is marriage I added when the caustic was cool, not intending to produce a golden rule.
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Give me a world, you have taken the world I was.
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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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The self forms at the edge of desire, and a science of self arises in the effort to leave that self behind.
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No need to fear death. There will be a tunnel and light.
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We’re talking about the struggle to drag a thought over from the mush of the unconscious into some kind of grammar, syntax, human sense; every attempt means starting over with language. Starting over with accuracy.
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Desire is no light thing.
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