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Each night about this time he puts on sadness like a garment and goes on writing.
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A man moves through time. It means nothing except that, like a harpoon, once thrown he will arrive.
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Time isn't made of anything. It is an abstraction. Just a meaning that we impose upon motion.
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As lover you reach forward to a point in time called "then" when you will bite into the long-desired apple. Meanwhile you are aware that as soon as "then" supervenes upon "now," the bittersweet moment, which is your desire, will be gone. You cannot want that, and yet you do.
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Good authors, too, who once knew better words Now only use four-letter words Writing prose — Anything goes.
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Anne Carson
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June 21, 1950
(age 74)
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