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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.
Anne Carson
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Anne Carson
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: June 21
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City of Toronto
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The words we read and words we write never say exactly what we mean. The people we love are never just as we desire them. The two symbola never perfectly match. Eros is in between.
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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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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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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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Why does tragedy exist? Because you are full of rage. Why are you full of rage? Because you are full of grief.
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No need to fear death. There will be a tunnel and light.
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Love is a good place to situate our distrust of fake women.
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I do think that something of the effect I have on people is to put everything on an edge where they're both infatuated with a kind of charmingness happening in the person or in the writing, and also flatly terrified by a revelation or acceptance of revelation that's almost happening, never quite totally happening.
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A page with a poem on it is less attractive than a page with a poem on it and some tea stains.
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Philosophers say man forms himself in dialogue.
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Men know almost nothing about desire, they think it has to do with sexual activity or can be discharged that way. But sex is a substitute, like money or language. Sometimes I just want to stop seeing.
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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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