Anne Carson

Quotes

• Which one of these four quotes is attributed to Anne Carson?

  • → I’ve long seen failure as a tool, not an outcome.
  • → They're holding flushes of face cards, and I think we're the pot.
  • → To be running breathlessly, but not yet arrived, is itself delightful, a suspended moment of living hope.
  • → Reality is a sound, you have to tune in to it not just keep yelling.
  
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• Pick the quote attributed to Anne Carson.

  • → If funkytown was a trailerpark this guy would be a doublewide.
  • → Until the thirst for power parched his throat, he was a fearless and noble lord.
  • → They're holding flushes of face cards, and I think we're the pot.
  • → A man moves through time. It means nothing except that, like a harpoon, once thrown he will arrive.
  
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• Select the quotation attributed to Anne Carson.

  • → Guilt is the toothache of the soul.
  • → Reality is a sound, you have to tune in to it not just keep yelling.
  • → Give me a world, you have taken the world I was.
  • → Time isn't made of anything. It is an abstraction. Just a meaning that we impose upon motion.
  
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• One of these may be attributed to Anne Carson. Which one?

  • → Human beings may be miserable specimens, in the main, but we can learn, and, through learning, become decent people.
  • → It is the job of the market to turn the base material of our emotions into gold.
  • → Time isn't made of anything. It is an abstraction. Just a meaning that we impose upon motion.
  • → To live past the end of your myth is a perilous thing.
  
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• Which one of these belongs to Anne Carson?

  • → There is something maddeningly attractive about the untranslatable, about a word that goes silent in transit.
  • → And for a moment the frailest leaves of life contained him in a widening happiness.
  • → No one will ever make necessity not happen.
  • → It is the edge separating my tongue from the taste for which it longs that teaches me what an edge is.
  
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• Can you identify the right quote belonging to Anne Carson?

  • → To live past the end of your myth is a perilous thing.
  • → And for a moment the frailest leaves of life contained him in a widening happiness.
  • → Nothing vast enters the life of mortals without ruin.
  • → It is the edge separating my tongue from the taste for which it longs that teaches me what an edge is.
  
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• Guess which of these quotes is attributed to Anne Carson.

  • → Just remember to keep your eye out for ways to maximize your schedule freedom in the long term.
  • → Sand was dribbling out of the bag of her attention, faster and faster.
  • → It is easier to tell a story of how people wound one another than of what binds them together.
  • → A man moves through time. It means nothing except that, like a harpoon, once thrown he will arrive.
  
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• One of the following quotations belongs to Anne Carson. Which one?

  • → Time rises and rises, and when it reaches the level of your eyes you drown.
  • → If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
  • → It is easier to tell a story of how people wound one another than of what binds them together.
  • → Reality is a sound, you have to tune in to it not just keep yelling.
  
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• Can you guess which one of these belongs to Anne Carson?

  • → They call it the drowning instinct. It's when drowning doesn't look like drowning.
  • → A river of images and thoughts and feelings, dirtied and polluted so that no one could drink from it without gagging.
  • → The world is a room of heavy furniture. Eventually you are allowed to leave.
  • → Give me a world, you have taken the world I was.
  
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• Try to identify the quote attributed to Anne Carson.

  • → There is something maddeningly attractive about the untranslatable, about a word that goes silent in transit.
  • → And for a moment the frailest leaves of life contained him in a widening happiness.
  • → No one will ever make necessity not happen.
  • → Nothing vast enters the life of mortals without ruin.
  
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• Looks like Anne Carson is the author of one of these.

  • → There is something maddeningly attractive about the untranslatable, about a word that goes silent in transit.
  • → And for a moment the frailest leaves of life contained him in a widening happiness.
  • → No one will ever make necessity not happen.
  • → It is the edge separating my tongue from the taste for which it longs that teaches me what an edge is.
  
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• Pick the one quotation belonging to Anne Carson.

  • → To be running breathlessly, but not yet arrived, is itself delightful, a suspended moment of living hope.
  • → No one will ever make necessity not happen.
  • → Nothing vast enters the life of mortals without ruin.
  • → It is the edge separating my tongue from the taste for which it longs that teaches me what an edge is.
  
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