"To live past the end of your myth is a perilous thing."

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Source : "Red Doc>". Book by Anne Carson, statement on a jacket copy, therumpus.net. 2013.

Anne Carson

#Past Quotes #Ends Quotes #Myth Quotes

“Perhaps it would be a good idea, fantastic as it sounds, to muffle every telephone, halt every motor, and stop all activity someday to give people a chance to ponder a few minutes on what it is all about, why they are living, and what they really want.”
“Love makes its record in deeper colors as we grow out of childhood into manhood.”
“...as our friend Zach has often noted, in our days those who do the best for astronomy are not the salaried university professors, but so-called dillettanti, physicians, jurists, and so forth.Lamenting the fragmentary time left to a professor has remaining after fulfilling his teaching duties.”
“I found my first dinosaur bone when I was 6, growing up in Montana. Ever since then I've been interested in dinosaurs.”

Source : "Jack Horner knows his dinosaurs" by Peggy Mihelich, www.cnn.com. March 8, 2007.
“The SILENCE of the good people is more DANGEROUS than the BRUTALITY of the bad people”
“Everything in God's store is on the bottom shelf...you have to get on your knees to get it.”
“Life can seem short or life can seem long, depending on how you live it.”
“Things were very different back in 1992. There was unrest in the Middle East, we had a gridlocked Congress, and everybody was talking about Bill Cosby.”

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