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Up against another human being one's own procedures take on definition

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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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What would it be like to live in a library of melted books. With sentences streaming over the floor and all the punctuation settled to the bottom as a residue. It would be confusing. Unforgivable. A great adventure.
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Homer must have felt this pressure to come up with an epic poem that would sound totally new to an audience that had loved his previous best-seller.
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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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Aristotle says that metaphor causes the mind to experience itself in the act of making a mistake.
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Everything depends on liking the people and trusting the people. You have to assume that whatever they do will be as good as you want the thing to be and just go ahead with that.
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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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No need to fear death. There will be a tunnel and light.
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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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Sometimes I dream a sentence and write it down. It’s usually nonsense, but sometimes it seems a key to another world.
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Love dares the self to leave itself behind, to enter into poverty.
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It takes practice to shave the skin off the light.
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Sometimes a journey makes itself necessary.
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The self forms at the edge of desire, and a science of self arises in the effort to leave that self behind.
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Lava bread makes you passionate.
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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.
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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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Desire doubled is love and love doubled is madness.
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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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Here we go mother on the shipless ocean. Pity us, pity the ocean, here we go.
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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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