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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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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 never had much education in English poetry as such.
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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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The man has a theory. The woman has hipbones. Here comes Death.
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The beloved's innocence brutalizes the lover. As the singing of a mad person behind you on the train enrages you, its beautiful animal-like teeth shining amid black planes of paint. As Helen enrages history. Senza uscita.
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It is easier to tell a story of how people wound one another than of what binds them together.
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Philosophers say man forms himself in dialogue.
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Madness and witchery as well as bestiality are conditions commonly associated with the use of the female voice in public.
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Prowling the meanings of a word, prowling the history of a person, no use expecting a flood of light. Human words have no main switch. But all those little kidnaps in the dark. And then the luminous, big, shivering, discandied, unrepentant, barking web of them that hangs in your mind when you turn back to the page you were trying to translate.
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