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Philosophers say man forms himself in dialogue.
Anne Carson
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Anne Carson
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: June 21
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Literary Critic
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City of Toronto
Carson
Anne
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You used to say. Desire doubled is love and love doubled is madness. Madness doubled is marriage I added when the caustic was cool, not intending to produce a golden rule.
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You doubt God? Well more to the point I credit God with the good sense to doubt me. What is mortality after all but divine doubt flashing over us? For an instant God suspends assent and poof! we disappear.
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Reality is a sound, you have to tune in to it not just keep yelling.
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There is no person without a world.
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We are only midway through the central verse of our youth when we see ourselves begin to blacken. ... We had been seduced into thinking that we were immortal and suddenly the affair is over.
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One of the principle qualities of pain is that it demands an explanation.
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Small, red, and upright he waited, gripping his new bookbag tight in one hand and touching a lucky penny inside his coat pocket with the other, while the first snows of winter floated down on his eyelashes and covered the branches around him and silenced all trace of the world.
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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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Caught between the tongue and the taste.
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The man has a theory. The woman has hipbones. Here comes Death.
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When I began to be published, people got the idea that I should 'teach writing,' which I have no idea how to do and don't really believe in.
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No need to fear death. There will be a tunnel and light.
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I started to learn Greek when I was in high school, the last year of high school, by accident, because my teacher knew Greek and she offered to teach me on the lunch hour, so we did it in an informal way, and then I did it at university, and that was the main thing of my life.
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Myths are stories about people who become too big for their lives temporarily, so that they crash into other lives or brush against gods. In crisis their souls are visible.
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You remember too much, my mother said to me recently. Why hold onto all that? And I said, where can I put it down?
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Time isn't made of anything. It is an abstraction. Just a meaning that we impose upon motion.
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It is for God to fix the time who knows no time.
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M: Is he smart I: She yes very smart sees right through me M: In my day we valued blindness rather more
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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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All human desire is poised on an axis of paradox, absence and presence its poles, love and hate its motive energies.
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