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I do think I have an ability to record sensual and emotional facts and factoids, to construct a convincing surface of what life feels like, both physical life and emotional life.

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
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he stood against the wind and let it peel him clean
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Reality is a sound, you have to tune in to it not just keep yelling.
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Caught between the tongue and the taste.
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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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All myth is an enriched pattern, a two-faced proposition, allowing its operator to say one thing and mean another, to lead a double life. Hence the notion found early in ancient thought that all poets are liars. And from the true lies of poetry trickled out a question. What really connects words and things?
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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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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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We humans seem disastrously in love with this thing (whatever it is) that glitters on the earth-- we call it life.
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Could you visit me in dreams? That would cheer me. Sweet to see friends in the night, however short the time.
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