Raymond Carver quotes - page 2

I'm always learning something. Learning never ends. (Raymond Carver)
What do any of us really know about love? View quote
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All of us, all of us, all of us trying to save our immortal souls, some ways seemingly more round about and mysterious than others. We are having a good time here. But hope all will be revealed soon. View quote
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We knew our days were numbered. We had fouled up our lives and we were getting ready for a shake-up. View quote
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It ought to make us feel ashamed when we talk like we know what we're talking about when we talk about love. View quote
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Woke up this morning with a terrific urge to lie in bed all day and read. View quote
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And what did you want? To call myself beloved, to feel myself beloved on the earth. View quote
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But I can hardly sit still. I keep fidgeting, crossing one leg and then the other. I feel like I could throw off sparks, or break a window--maybe rearrange all the furniture. View quote
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Dreams, you know, are what you wake up from. View quote
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Honey, no offense, but sometimes I think I could shoot you and watch you kick. View quote
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Don't complain, don't explain. (Raymond Carver)
This is awful. I don't know what's going to happen to me or to anyone else in the world. View quote
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He wondered if she wondered if he were watching her. View quote
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Something's died in me,” she goes. "It took a long time for it to do it, but it's dead. You've killed something, just like you'd took an axe to it. Everything is dirt now. View quote
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I am a cigarette with a body attached to it. View quote
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there isn't enough of anything as long as we live. But at intervals a sweetness appears and, given a chance prevails. View quote
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There is no answer. It's okay. But even if it wasn't okay, what am I supposed to do? View quote
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There was a time when I thought I loved my first wife more than life itself. But now I hate her guts. I do. How do you explain that? What happened to that love? What happened to it, is what I'd like to know. I wish someone could tell me. View quote
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Happiness. It comes on unexpectedly. And goes beyond, really, any early morning talk about it. View quote
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The fiction Im most interested in has lines of reference to the real world. View quote
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Nights without beginning that had no end. Talking about a past as if it'd really happened. Telling themselves that this time next year, this time next year, things were going to be different. (Raymond Carver)
That morning she pours Teacher's over my belly and licks it off. That afternoon she tries to jump out the window. View quote
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Then I said something. I said, Suppose, just suppose, nothing had ever happened. Suppose this was for the first time. Just suppose. It doesn't hurt to suppose. Say none of the other had ever happened. You know what I mean? Then what? I said. View quote
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When I'm fishing, I feel guilty that I'm not writing, and when I'm writing, I feel guilty that I'm not fishing. But when push comes to shove, I'll always take the writing. View quote
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Every great or even every very good writer makes the world over according to his own specifications. View quote
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