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Sometimes a journey makes itself necessary.

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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Necessary
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We participate in the creation of the world by decreating ourselves.
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Maybe I could have been good as a drawer if I had done it as much as I did writing, but it's more scary to draw. It's more revealing. You can't disguise yourself in drawing.
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Blessed be they whose lives do not taste of evilbut if some god shakes your houseruin arrivesruin does not leaveit comes tolling over the generationsit comes rolling the black night salt up from the ocean floorand all your thrashed coasts groan
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I don't know that we really think any thoughts we think connections between thoughts. That's where the mind moves, that's what's new, and the thoughts themselves have probably been there in my head or lots of other people's heads for a long time.
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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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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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Time isn't made of anything. It is an abstraction. Just a meaning that we impose upon motion.
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Here we go mother on the shipless ocean. Pity us, pity the ocean, here we go.
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Philosophy - hopeless. Yet it gives me hope.
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