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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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Anne Carson
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: June 21
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Literary Critic
Poet
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Writer
City of Toronto
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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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Philosophy - hopeless. Yet it gives me hope.
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