I don’t read reviews and I don’t know what to do with opinions, so I just lose them. They take up space, they become a process of manufacturing a persona, which I want to avoid.
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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Existence will not stop until it gets to beauty.
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Poetry – poiesis means a thing made.
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No one will ever make necessity not happen.
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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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Desire is no light thing.
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Sometimes a journey makes itself necessary.
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Reality is a sound, you have to tune in to it not just keep yelling.
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When I desire you a part of me is gone.
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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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I do think I have an ability to record sensual and emotional facts and factoids, to construct a convincing surface of what life feels like, both physical life and emotional life.
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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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Philosophers say man forms himself in dialogue.
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At least half of your mind is always thinking, I’ll be leaving; this won’t last. It’s a good Buddhist attitude. If I were a Buddhist, this would be a great help. As it is, I’m just sad.
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We participate in the creation of the world by decreating ourselves.
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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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