"We're talking about the struggle to drag a thought over from the mush of the unconscious into some kind of grammar, syntax, human sense; every attempt means starting over with language. starting over with accuracy."

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Source : "The Inscrutable Brilliance of Anne Carson". Interview with Sam Anderson, www.nytimes.com. March 14, 2013.

Anne Carson

#Struggle Quotes #Mean Quotes #Talking Quotes

“If time were a bolt of cloth,” said Om, “I would cut out all the bad parts. Snip out the scary nights and stitch together the good parts, to make time bearable. Then I could wear it like a coat, always live happily.”
“I appreciate a slow-burn romance. In most movies, everyone is just tearing their clothes off in the first scene.”
“Practice makes myelin, and myelin makes perfect.”

Source : "Practice makes perfect?". "All in the Mind", www.abc.net.au. November 5, 2011.
“Choice of attention - to pay attention to this and ignore that - is to the inner life what choice of action is to the outer. In both cases, a man is responsible for his choice and must accept the consequences, whatever they may be.”
“It looks like the future's really bright.”

Source : "Anderson: Bright future for black astronauts". www.cnn.com. February 4, 2003.
“I guess I'm sort of spoiled because, most of the things that I get to do, people know that you're a good improviser, so they allow you at least one improv take, and for comedy, that's great.”

Source : Interview with Marah Eakin, www.avclub.com. April 13, 2012.
“The first presentation of my show was given in May, 1883, at Omaha, which I had then chosen as my home. From there we made our first summer tour, visiting practically every important city in the country.”

Source : Buffalo Bill, W. F. Cody (2012). “Buffalo Bill's Life Story: An Autobiography”, p.183, Courier Corporation
“You can't talk your way out of a situation you acted you way into.”

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