"I am kind of a curmudgeonly person, so I don't gravitate to groups or traditions, which is probably just pretentious of me."

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Anne Carson

#Groups Quotes #Kind Quotes #Tradition Quotes

“There is in my work a very strong religious foreground and background. In the later work some of that tends to diminish, but it's certainly present in the early work.”
“We physicists know that a beautiful postulate is more likely to be correct than an ugly one. Why not adopt this Postulate of Eternal Life, at least as a working hypothesis?”
“Myths, whether in written or visual form, serve a vital role of asking unanswerable questions and providing unquestionable answers. Most of us, most of the time, have a low tolerance for ambiguity and uncertainty. We want to reduce the cognitive dissonance of not knowing by filling the gaps with answers. Traditionally, religious myths have served that role, but today â€” the age of science â€” science fiction is our mythology.”
“The Potter books in general are a prolonged argument for tolerance, a prolonged plea for an end to bigotry. And I think it's one of the reasons that some people don't like the books, but I think that's it's a very healthy message to pass on to younger people that you should question authority and you should not assume that the establishment or the press tells you all of the truth.”

Source : "Conversation: Francine du Plessix Gray and Sean Wilsey". Interview with Boris Kachka, nymag.com.
“No one can quite say what the creative process is. Because I have nothing to do with it of course. It's created in space. It's God's work, not mine.”
“Self-will seems to be the only virtue that takes no account of man-made laws.”
“When I went to the Hall of Fame in 2000 and was inducted, it was a travesty the kind of carnage I saw out of these guys who were in their 50s and 60s, who had defined and in many ways laid the foundation for the NFL being what it is today.”
“The paradox of faith is that when we conform our lives to Christ then we gain our true freedom. And its fruit is profound and lasting happiness.”

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