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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.

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Anne Carson
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: June 21
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City of Toronto
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DEATH . . . And now you are here to fight for this woman. You know her promise is given. She has to die or her husband won't go free. APOLLO Relax, I'm not breaking any laws. DEATH Why the bow, if you're breaking no laws? APOLLO I always carry a bow, it's my trademark.
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Making is always a slightly hopeful thing because once you've made something, it'll - the world will be different.
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I mean, every thought starts over, so every expression of a thought has to do the same. every accuracy has to be invented... I feel I am blundering in concepts too fine for me.
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It is when you are asking about something that you realize you yourself have survived it, and so you must carry it, or fashion it into a thing that carries itself.
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Do you remember when they taught cursive in schools? I think they don't anymore. But I still enjoy it - just the physical act and all the - the whole business of making a thing out of language.
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To live past the end of your myth is a perilous thing.
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My religion makes no sense and does not help me therefore I pursue it.
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I never had much education in English poetry as such.
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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 themselves have probably been there in my head or lots of other people's heads for a long time.
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Philosophy - hopeless. Yet it gives me hope.
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No need to fear death. There will be a tunnel and light.
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Under the seams runs the pain.
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Philosophers say man forms himself in dialogue.
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Those nights lying alone are not discontinuous with this cold hectic dawn. It is who I am.
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Blessed be they whose lives do not taste of evilbut if some god shakes your houseruin arrivesruin does not leaveit comes tolling over the generationsit comes rolling the black night salt up from the ocean floorand all your thrashed coasts groan
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