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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Life pulls softly inside your bindings. The pod glows – dear stench.
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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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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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It is when you are asking about something that you realize you yourself have survived it, and so you must carry it, or fashion it into a thing that carries itself.
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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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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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It is easier to tell a story of how people wound one another than of what binds them together.
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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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Meanwhile music pounded / across hearts opening every valve to the desperate drama of being / a self in a song.
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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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Philosophy – hopeless. Yet it gives me hope.
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Making is always a slightly hopeful thing because once you’ve made something, it’ll – the world will be different.
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Words bounce. Words, if you let them, will do what they want to do and what they have to do.
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To be running breathlessly, but not yet arrived, is itself delightful, a suspended moment of living hope.
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Up against another human being one’s own procedures take on definition.
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