No one will ever make necessity not happen.
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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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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To be running breathlessly, but not yet arrived, is itself delightful, a suspended moment of living hope.
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Reality is a sound, you have to tune in to it not just keep yelling.
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There is no person without a world.
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It takes practice to shave the skin off the light.
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Life pulls softly inside your bindings. The pod glows – dear stench.
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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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I never had much education in English poetry as such.
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All human desire is poised on an axis of paradox, absence and presence its poles, love and hate its motive energies.
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Aristotle says that metaphor causes the mind to experience itself in the act of making a mistake.
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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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I am a drop of gold he would say I am molten matter returned from the core of earth to tell you interior things.
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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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Sometimes a journey makes itself necessary.
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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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