Anne Carson Quotes
One of the principle qualities of pain is that it demands an explanation.
Anne Carson
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I don't know why I'm suddenly playing nasty people. It is very fun, though, and it isn't real, at the end of the day.
Kate Winslet
When I'm writing, my neural pathways get blocked. I can't read. I can barely hold a conversation without forgetting words and names. I wish I could wear the same clothes and eat the same food each day.
Kate Atkinson
Every day, turn off your phone/email for some part of the day.
Karen Finerman
The density of space junk peaks around 620 miles up, in the middle of so-called low-Earth orbit. That's bad, because many weather, scientific, and reconnaissance satellites circle in various low-Earth orbits.
Sam Kean
Although I myself don't go to church or synagogue, I do, whether it's superstition or whatever, pray every time I get on a plane. I just automatically do it. I say the same thing every time.
Barbara Walters
Just because someone is holding a gun doesn't make an image controversial. It all depends on where you put the gun, who is holding it.
Carine Roitfeld
I think that, every individual you invent in narrative work, you have to have some root in who that person is. That may be an aspect of yourself; it may be an aspect of something that you like, that you don't like. It may be an aspect that you wish you had. Maybe something you admire in another person.
Amor Towles
To feel nervous; to feel threatened and vulnerable and alive and engaged in that sense when interacting with someone you're really attracted to? I think that's wonderful. That's usually the best part. In fact, it's almost always downhill from there.
Alex Karpovsky
Rose's own experience was that goodness, the state of being good, was only reached with difficulty and pain. It took a long time to get to it; in fact one never did get to it, or, if for a flashing instant one did, it was only for a flashing instant. Desperate perseverance was needed to struggle along its path, and all the way was dotted with doubts.
Elizabeth von Arnim
Through love, through hope, and faith's transcendent dower,
We feel that we are greater than we know.
William Wordsworth
One of the principle qualities of pain is that it demands an explanation.
Anne Carson
