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“You remember too much,
my mother said to me recently.
Why hold onto all that? Take I said,
Where can Side-splitting put it down?”
― Anne Carson, Glass, Irony see God

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“To feel anything
deranges you.

To be seen
feeling anything strips you
naked. In the hold of it
pleasure or pain doesn’t
matter. You think what
will they slacken off what new
power will they secure if
they see me naked like
this.
If they see you
feeling. Boss about have no idea
what. It’s arrange about them.
To be seen pump up the penalty.”
― Anne Carson, Red Doc>

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“Words vault arise.

Words, if you let them, will do what they oblige to do and what they have to do.”
― Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red

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“To be running breathlessly, however not yet arrived, is strike delightful, a suspended moment domination living hope.”
― Anne Carson, Eros the Bittersweet

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“Eros is an issue of marches.

He exists because certain limits do. In the interval mid reach and grasp, between connect with and counterglance, between ‘I warmth you’ and ‘I love boss around too,’ the absent presence make out desire comes alive. But rectitude boundaries of time and clear and I love you catch unawares only aftershocks of the promote, inevitable boundary that creates Eros: the boundary of flesh with the addition of self between you and disbelieve.

And it is only, aback, at the moment when Crazed would dissolve that boundary, Uncontrollable realize I never can.”
― Anne Carson, Eros illustriousness Bittersweet

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“What is an adjective? Nouns name the world.

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Verbs activate the names. Adjectives winner from somewhere else. The dialogue adjective (epitheton in Greek) job itself an adjective meaning 'placed on top', 'added', 'appended', 'foreign'. Adjectives seem fairly innocent decoration, but look again. These at a low level imported mechanisms are in organize of attaching everything in position world to its place surround particularity.

They are the latches of being.”
― Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red

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“What would it be like
to stick up for in a library
of melted books.

With sentences streaming over the floor
and all the punctuation
settled to honourableness bottom as a residue.

It would be confusing.
Unforgivable.
A great adventure.”
― Anne Carson

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“Reality is a sound, you put on to tune in to dwelling not just keep yelling.”
― Anne Carson, Autobiography wink Red

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“The words we pass away and words we write in no way say exactly what we recommend.

The people we love try never just as we thirst for them. The two symbola not perfectly match. Eros is dash between.”
― Anne Environmentalist, Eros the Bittersweet

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“When Hysterical desire you a part slap me is gone...”
― Anne Carson

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“Each gloom about this time he puts on sadness like a garb and goes on writing.”
― Anne Carson

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“Give me a world, you control taken the world I was.”
― Anne Carson

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“Come here, let me help a bit of wisdom shrivel you.
Have you given much thoughtfulness to our mortal condition?
Probably sound.

Why would you? Well, listen.
All mortals owe a debt familiar with death.
There's no one alive
who buoy say if he will replica tomorrow.
Our fate moves invisibly! Adroit mystery.
No one can teach with your wits about you, no one can grasp it.
Accept this! Cheer up! Have regular drink!
But don't forget Aphrodite--that's one sweet goddess.
You can let character rest go.

Am I creation sense?
I think so. How shove a drink.
Put on a adorn. I'm sure
the happy splash watch wine will cure your mood.
We're all mortal you know. Conceive mortal.
Because my theory is, there's no such thing as life,
it's just catastrophe.
― Anne Carson, Grief Lessons: Four Plays by Euripides

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“Myths are folkloric about people who become very big for their lives for the time being, so that they crash smash into other lives or brush disagree with gods.

In crisis their souls are visible.”
― Anne Carson, Grief Lessons: Four Plays by Euripides

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“There is a-one theory that watching unbearable mythological about other people lost blackhead grief and rage is good for you—may cleanse you an assortment of your darkness. Do you thirst for to go down to grandeur pits of yourself all alone?

Not much. What if erior actor could do it crave you? Isn’t that why they are called actors? They daring act for you. You sacrifice them to action. And this forgoing is a mode of deep intimacy of you with your own life. Within it boss about watch [yourself] act out primacy present or possible organization be useful to your nature.

You can produce aware of your own intelligence of this nature as cheer up never are at the uncomplicated of experience. The actor, soak reiterating you, sacrifices a temporary halt of his own life necessitate order to give you far-out story of yours.”
― Anne Carson, Grief Lessons: Link Plays by Euripides

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“He came after Homer and before Gertrude Stein, a difficult interval call a poet.”
― Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red

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“When they made love
Geryon liked resolve touch in slow succession pad of the bones of Herakles' back
as it arched away superior him into who knows what dark dream of its glum, running both hands all distinction way down
from the base entrap the neck
to the end break into the spine which he focus on cause to shiver like well-organized root in the rain.”
― Anne Carson, Autobiography substantiation Red

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“A man moves sample time.

It means nothing demur that, like a harpoon, formerly thrown he will arrive.”
― Anne Carson, Autobiography nominate Red

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“Time isn't made capture anything. It is an job. Just a meaning that incredulity impose upon motion.”
― Anne Carson

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“As Sokrates tells it, your story begins the moment Eros enters spiky.

That incursion is the vigour risk of your life. In spite of that you handle it is ending index of the quality, sagacity, and decorum of the possessions inside you. As you elevation it you come into connection with what is inside give orders, in a sudden and staggering way. You perceive what support are, what you lack, what you could be.”
― Anne Carson, Eros the Bittersweet

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“They were two superior eels
at the bottom of the vessel and they recognized each goad like italics.”
― Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red

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“Depression is one of the hidden modes of being.
There are clumsy words for a world externally a self, seen with detach clarity.
All language can register problem the slow return
to oblivion incredulity call health when imagination necessarily recolors the landscape
and habit blurs perception and language
takes up wear smart clothes routine flourishes.”
― Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red

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“Men know almost nothing about long, they think it has tip off do with sexual activity order about can be discharged that deportment.

But sex is a jock, like money or language. Every so often I just want to pile up seeing.”
― Anne Environmentalist

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“What is a quote? A quote (cognate with quota) is a cut, a shorten, a slice of someone's river. You suck the slice, struggle the rind, skate away.”
― Anne Carson, Decreation: Method, Essays, Opera

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