Give me a world, you have taken the world I was.
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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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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One of the principle qualities of pain is that it demands an explanation.
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Madness and witchery as well as bestiality are conditions commonly associated with the use of the female voice in public.
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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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Philosophy – hopeless. Yet it gives me hope.
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Existence will not stop until it gets to beauty.
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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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Consider incompleteness as a verb.
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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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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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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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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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My religion makes no sense and does not help me therefore I pursue it.
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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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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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