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It is easier to tell a story of how people wound one another than of what binds them together.

Anne Carson

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Anne Carson
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: June 21
Linguist
Literary Critic
Poet
Professor
Translator
Writer
City of Toronto
Carson
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Story
Tell
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Stories
Together
Binds
People
Wound
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Easier

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Why does tragedy exist? Because you are full of rage. Why are you full of rage? Because you are full of grief.
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It is for God to fix the time who knows no time.
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Each night about this time he puts on sadness like a garment and goes on writing.
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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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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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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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Existence will not stop until it gets to beauty.
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You can never know enough, never work enough, never use the infinitives and participles oddly enough, never impede the movement harshly enough, never leave the mind quickly enough.
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What is the fear inside language? No accident of the body can make it stop burning.
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Reality is a sound, you have to tune in to it not just keep yelling.
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Lava bread makes you passionate.
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I've come to understand that the best one can hope for as a human is to have a relationship with that emptiness where God would be if God were available, but God isn't.
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He was trying to fit this Herakles onto the one he knew.
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What is a quote? A quote (cognate with quota) is a cut, a section, a slice of someone's orange. You suck the slice, toss the rind, skate away.
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The Greek language seems different than other languages. I'm not the only person to think this. Usually, I come up with some kind of dopey metaphor for why it's different. But it seems, somehow, more original, more like being in the morning of language.
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Meanwhile music pounded / across hearts opening every valve to the desperate drama of being / a self in a song.
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Comfortable means gradually more and more flattened down, more and more blunt - less and less sharp and biting into you.
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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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Love is a good place to situate our distrust of fake women.
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I am a drop of gold he would say I am molten matter returned from the core of earth to tell you interior things-
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