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Thinking Quotes by Anne Carson
- Men know almost nothing about desire, they think it has to do with sexual activity or can be discharged that way. But sex is a…
- A thinking mind is not swallowed up by what it comes to know. It reaches out to grasp something related to itself and to its…
- I do think I have an ability to record sensual and emotional facts and factoids, to construct a convincing surface of what life feels like,…
- I do think that something of the effect I have on people is to put everything on an edge where they're both infatuated with a…
- I don't know that we really think any thoughts; we think connections between thoughts. That's where the mind moves, that's what's new, and the thoughts…
- There is something about the way that Greek poets, say Aeschylus, use metaphor that really attracts me. I don't think I can imitate it, but…
- We are only midway through the central verse of our youth when we see ourselves begin to blacken. ... We had been seduced into thinking…
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- Nothing is more disgusting than the crowing about liberty by slaves, as most men are, and the flippant mistaking for freedom of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you… — Alexis Arguello