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I don't read reviews and I don't know what to do with opinions, so I just lose them. They take up space, they become a process of manufacturing a persona, which I want to avoid.

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
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Love is a good place to situate our distrust of fake women.
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I started to learn Greek when I was in high school, the last year of high school, by accident, because my teacher knew Greek and she offered to teach me on the lunch hour, so we did it in an informal way, and then I did it at university, and that was the main thing of my life.
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To live past the end of your myth is a perilous thing.
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Sometimes a journey makes itself necessary.
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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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Here we go mother on the shipless ocean. Pity us, pity the ocean, here we go.
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Life pulls softly inside your bindings. The pod glows - dear stench.
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Madness and witchery as well as bestiality are conditions commonly associated with the use of the female voice in public.
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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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Give me a world, you have taken the world I was.
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My religion makes no sense and does not help me therefore I pursue it.
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Simply do something else and return to it later to find the problem wasn't a problem at all. Ruptures almost always lead to a stronger project.
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Love dares the self to leave itself behind, to enter into poverty.
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Caught between the tongue and the taste.
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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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Making is always a slightly hopeful thing because once you've made something, it'll - the world will be different.
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