A man moves through time. It ...

A man moves through time. It means nothing except that, like a harpoon, once thrown he will arrive.
A man moves through time. It means nothing except that, like a harpoon, once thrown he will arrive.
 Anne Carson

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I'm pretty conservative when it comes to money. My parents were very working class and constantly working. There was always a very strong work ethic and that's put a more conservative, "save for a rainy day" mentality into me.
To reform society, and with it humanity, there is only one mean; to transform the mentality of men, to direct them ("les orienter", Fr.) in a new spirit.
 African Spir
Random, meaningless groups can adopt an us-versus-them mentality.
 Alexandra Robbins
The kind of group mentality that we had lived under since the Second World War is starting to erupt, and the craving for individualism is now much stronger. It's not as taboo anymore, as it was when I was younger.
 Nicolas Winding Refn
I mean, I grew up an athlete training and training and training. So I kind of have that mentality.
 Scott Speedman

Quotes from the same author

You can get used to eating breakfast with a man in a fedora. You can get used to anything, my mother was in the habit of saying.
 Anne Carson
[Short Talk on Sylvia Plath] Did you see her mother on television? She said plain, burned things. She said I thought it an excellent poem but it hurt me. She did not say jungle fear. She did not say jungle hatred wild jungle weeping chop it back chop it. She said self-government she said end of the road. She did not say humming in the middle of the air what you came for chop.
 Anne Carson
Here we go mother on the shipless ocean. Pity us, pity the ocean, here we go.
 Anne Carson
You remember too much," my mother said to me recently. "Why hold onto all that?" And I said, "where can I put it down?
 Anne Carson
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, both physical life and emotional life.
 Anne Carson