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Words bounce. Words, if you let them, will do what they want to do and what they have to do.Anne Carson
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He was trying to fit this Herakles onto the one he knew.Anne Carson
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Reality is a sound, you have to tune in to it not just keep yelling.Anne Carson
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Small, red, and upright he waited, gripping his new bookbag tightin one hand and touching a lucky penny inside his coat pocket with the other, while the first snows of winterfloated down on his eyelashes and covered the branches around him and silencedall trace of the world.Anne Carson
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She stumbled then and Geryon caught her other arm, it was like a handful of autumn. He felt huge and wrong. When is it polite to let go someone’s arm after you grab it?Anne Carson
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Sometimes a journey makes itself necessary.Anne Carson
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But when justice is done the world drops away.Anne Carson
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Are there many little boys who think they are a Monster? But in my case I am right said Geryon to the Dog they were sitting on the bluffs The dog regarded him JoyfullyAnne Carson
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He had a respect for facts maybe this was one.Anne Carson