Love is a good place to situate our distrust of fake women.
ANNE CARSON
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You 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.
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Love is a good place to situate our distrust of fake women.
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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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You can never know enough, never work enough, never use the infinitives and participles oddly enough, never impede the movement harshly enough, never leave the mind quickly enough.
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Philosophers say man forms himself in dialogue.
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Life pulls softly inside your bindings. The pod glows – dear stench.
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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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Under the seams runs the pain.
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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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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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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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Words bounce. Words, if you let them, will do what they want to do and what they have to do.
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When I began to be published, people got the idea that I should ‘teach writing,’ which I have no idea how to do and don’t really believe in.
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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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Lava bread makes you passionate.
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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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He stood against the wind and let it peel him clean.
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