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Raymond Carver Quotes

And it ought to make us feel ashamed when we talk like we know what we're talking about when we talk about love Picture Quote #1

I loved you so much once. I did. More than anything in the whole wide world. Imagine that. What a laugh that is now. Can you believe it? We were so intimate once upon a time I can’t believe it now. The memory of being that intimate with somebody. We were so intimate I could puke. I can’t imagine ever being that intimate with somebody else. I haven’t been Picture Quote #1

Late fragment and did you get what you wanted from this life, even so? I did. And what did you want? To call myself beloved, to feel myself beloved on the Earth Picture Quote #1

In short, everything about his life was different for him at the bottom of that well Picture Quote #1

There is no answer. It’s okay. But even if it wasn’t okay, what am I supposed to do? Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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But here is the thing. When he gets on me, I suddenly feel I am fat. I feel am terrifically fat, so fat that Rudy is a tiny thing and hardly there at all Picture Quote #1

Booze takes a lot of time and effort if you’re going to do a good job with it Picture Quote #1

Ralph also took some classes in philosophy and literature and felt himself on the brink of some kind of huge discovery about himself. But it never came Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

The places where water comes together with other water. Those places stand out in my mind like holy places Picture Quote #1

They had laughed. They had leaned on each other and laughed until the tears had come, while everything else - the cold, and where he'd go in it - was outside, for a while anyway Picture Quote #1

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I want to hide from it, that's what I want to do. I want to just close my eyes and let it pass by. Let it take the next man Picture Quote #1

All this, all of this love we’re talking about, it would just be a memory. Maybe not even a memory. Am I wrong? Am I way off base? Because I want you to set me straight if you think I’m wrong. I want to know. I mean, I don’t know anything, and I’m the first one to admit it Picture Quote #1

And what did you want? To call myself beloved, to feel myself beloved on the earth Picture Quote #1

Woke up this morning with a terrific urge to lie in bed all day and read. Fought against it for a minute. Then looked out the window at the rain. And gave over. Put myself entirely in the keep of this rainy morning. Would I live my life over again? Make the same unforgivable mistakes? Yes, given half a chance. Yes Picture Quote #1

There are significant moments in everyone’s day that can make literature. That’s what you ought to write about Picture Quote #1

Fiction shows the external effects of internal conditions. Be aware of the tension between internal and external movement Picture Quote #1

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And it ought to make us feel ashamed when we talk like we know what we're talking about when we talk about love (Raymond Carver Quotes) I loved you so much once. I did. More than anything in the whole wide world. Imagine that. What a laugh that is now. Can you believe it? We were so intimate once upon a time I can’t believe it now. The memory of being that intimate with somebody. We were so intimate I could puke. I can’t imagine ever being that intimate with somebody else. I haven’t been (Raymond Carver Quotes) Late fragment and did you get what you wanted from this life, even so? I did. And what did you want? To call myself beloved, to feel myself beloved on the Earth (Raymond Carver Quotes) In short, everything about his life was different for him at the bottom of that well (Raymond Carver Quotes) There is no answer. It’s okay. But even if it wasn’t okay, what am I supposed to do? (Raymond Carver Quotes) 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 Quotes) But here is the thing. When he gets on me, I suddenly feel I am fat. I feel am terrifically fat, so fat that Rudy is a tiny thing and hardly there at all (Raymond Carver Quotes) Booze takes a lot of time and effort if you’re going to do a good job with it (Raymond Carver Quotes) Ralph also took some classes in philosophy and literature and felt himself on the brink of some kind of huge discovery about himself. But it never came (Raymond Carver Quotes) 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 (Raymond Carver Quotes) The places where water comes together with other water. Those places stand out in my mind like holy places (Raymond Carver Quotes) They had laughed. They had leaned on each other and laughed until the tears had come, while everything else - the cold, and where he'd go in it - was outside, for a while anyway (Raymond Carver Quotes) I want to hide from it, that's what I want to do. I want to just close my eyes and let it pass by. Let it take the next man (Raymond Carver Quotes) All this, all of this love we’re talking about, it would just be a memory. Maybe not even a memory. Am I wrong? Am I way off base? Because I want you to set me straight if you think I’m wrong. I want to know. I mean, I don’t know anything, and I’m the first one to admit it (Raymond Carver Quotes) And what did you want? To call myself beloved, to feel myself beloved on the earth (Raymond Carver Quotes) Woke up this morning with a terrific urge to lie in bed all day and read. Fought against it for a minute. Then looked out the window at the rain. And gave over. Put myself entirely in the keep of this rainy morning. Would I live my life over again? Make the same unforgivable mistakes? Yes, given half a chance. Yes (Raymond Carver Quotes) There are significant moments in everyone’s day that can make literature. That’s what you ought to write about (Raymond Carver Quotes) Fiction shows the external effects of internal conditions. Be aware of the tension between internal and external movement (Raymond Carver Quotes)

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