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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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No need to fear death. There will be a tunnel and light.
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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 kind of charmingness happening in the person or in the writing, and also flatly terrified by a revelation or acceptance of revelation that's almost happening, never quite totally happening.
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