Anne Carson Quotes
Life pulls softly inside your bindings. The pod glows - dear stench.
Anne Carson
Quotes to Explore
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When life knocks you down, keep getting up.
Malorie Blackman
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I've been quite fascinated by the relative insignificance of human existence, the shortness of life. We might as well be a letter in a word in a sentence on a page in a book in a library in a city in one country in this enormous universe! And that kind of fear and insignificance has kept me awake at night.
Laura Marling
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The most important of all rights is the right to life, and I cannot foresee a day when domesticated animals will be granted that right in law.
J. M. Coetzee
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One of the things I do take some pride in is that if you had never read an article about my life, if you knew nothing about me, except that my books were being set in front of you to read, and if you were to read those books in sequence, I don't think you would say to yourself, 'Oh my God, something terrible happened to this writer in 1989.'
Salman Rushdie
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Unbeing dead isn't being alive.
e. e. cummings
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When we meet real tragedy in life, we can react in two ways - either by losing hope and falling into self-destructive habits, or by using the challenge to find our inner strength. Thanks to the teachings of Buddha, I have been able to take this second way.
Dalai Lama
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When Hillel died, it was during one of the happiest times of my life. I was married and completely in love and had a baby on the way.
Flea
Jane's Addiction
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Everybody's looking for love, and you want to love somebody and be loved in return.
Jill Scott
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Divide in yourself the mechanical from the conscious, see how little there is of the conscious, how seldom it works, and how strong is the mechanical - mechanical attitudes, mechanical intentions, mechanical thoughts, mechanical desires.
Pyotr Ouspensky
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Finally, empirical data suggests that assets are sold much more slowly during retirement years than when they are accumulated during working years.
Didier Sornette
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I think that educators are in sales. Essentially, what you are doing is making an exchange with your class. You're saying, 'Give me your attention. In exchange, I'll give you something else.' The cash register is not ringing. It's not denominated in dollars or cents or euros, but it is a form of sales in a way. It is an exchange.
Dan Pink
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Life pulls softly inside your bindings. The pod glows - dear stench.
Anne Carson
