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Carol Ann Duffy

"Like the sand and the oyster, it's a creative irritant. In each poem, I'm trying to reveal a truth, so it can't have a fictional beginning."

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"Like the sand and the oyster, it's a creative irritant. In each poem, I'm trying to reveal a truth, so it can't have a fictional beginning."

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"Macy: "In Truth, I said, "there are no rules other than you have to tell the truth.Wes: "How do you win? he askedMacy: "That, I said, "is such a boy question."

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"Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it."

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"Sometimes dead is better."

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"A false potential can dress itself up as attractive ideas."

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"Truth does not sit in a cave and hide like a lie. It wanders around proudly and roars loudly like a lion."

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"The truth may be puzzling. It may take some work to grapple with. It may be counterintuitive. It may contradict deeply held prejudices. It may not be consonant with what we desperately want to be true. But our preferences do not determine what's true."

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"Because you're not what I would have you be, I blind myself to who, in truth, you are."

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"When I was a child, I thought grown-ups and teachers knew the truth, because they told me they did. It took years for me to discover that the first step in finding out the truth is to begin unlearning almost everything adults had taught me, and to start doing all the things they'd told me NOT to do. Their main pitch was that achievement equaled happiness, when all you had to do was study rock stars, or movie stars, or them, to see that they were mostly miserable. They were all running around in mazes like everyone else."

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"The only sentence that begins with 'I' that's true of me is I'm full of shit."

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"Tragedy is like strong acid - it dissolves away all but the very gold of truth."

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"When you have a child, your previous life seems like someone else's. It's like living in a house and suddenly finding a room you didn't know was there, full of treasure and light."
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"It's always good when women win things in fiction because it tends to be more male-dominated, unlike poetry, which is more equal."
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"Every day is a gift with a child, no matter what problems you have."
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"I'll be left writing picture books and fairy tales."
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"Poetry and prayer are very similar."
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"Christmas is taken very seriously in this household. I believe in Father Christmas, and there's no way I'd do anything to undermine that belief."
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"I write in that space between Ella's childhood and mine. I know it all sounds a bit sinister."
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"My prose is turgid, it just hasn't got any energy."
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