"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."

-- Anne Carson

#Mean Quotes #Expression Quotes #Starting Over Quotes

“Names are not always what they seem. The common Welsh name Bzjxxllwcp is pronounced Jackson.”
“If you can read and have more imagination than a doorknob, what need do you have for a 'movie version' of a novel?”
“Thereâ€™s only one difference between published and unpublished writers, and it is this -- the first group see their work in print on the shelves of Waterstoneâ€™s or Tesco or online at Amazon; the second group are yet to have physical evidence of the hours, weeks, years spent fashioning words into their patterns. You are already a writer.”
“It is usually the case that people who know you better than you know yourself think you're a pretty good person.”
“An absolute condition of all successful living, whether for an individual or a nation, is the acceptance of death.”

Source : Freya Stark (2013). “Perseus In The Wind: A Life of Travel”, p.45, Tauris Parke Paperbacks
“Saving the world via medical research or going off to Gobi Desert to dust off dinosaur eggs is what I thought I might be doing when I was a kid, and Id love to bring those interests to a show like E.R. or The West Wing, or a movie like Jurassic Park.”
“I have done so many things in my life," she said to the mirror. "Evil things, perhaps. But never unattentively, never wastefully...was I wrong?”
“It's perfectly understandable and proper for one to be anti-Semite, but to exterminate women and children is so extraordinary, it's hard to believe. No defendant here wanted that.”

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