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Madness and witchery as well as bestiality are conditions commonly associated with the use of the female voice in public.

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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Reality is a sound, you have to tune in to it not just keep yelling.
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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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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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Each night about this time he puts on sadness like a garment and goes on writing.
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