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Raymond Carver Inspirational Quotes (48)

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There is no answer. It's okay. But even if it wasn't okay, what am I supposed to do?
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Remember Haydn's 104 symphonies. Not all of them were great. But there were 104 of them.
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A great danger, or at least a great temptation, for many writers is to become too autobiographical in their approach to their fiction. A little autobiography and a lot of imagination are best.
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Every great or even every very good writer makes the world over according to his own specifications.
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Anyone can express himself or herself, but what writers and poets want to do in their work, more than simply express themselves, is communicate.
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I am too nervous to eat pie.
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It's strange. You never start out life with the intention of becoming a bankrupt or an alcoholic or a cheat and a thief. Or a liar.
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My heart is broken,” she goes. “It’s turned to a piece of stone. I’m no good. That’s what’s as bad as anything, that I’m no good anymore.
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I'm always learning something. Learning never ends.
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There is no God, and conversation is a dying art.
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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.
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The fiction Im most interested in has lines of reference to the real world.
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My life is going to change. I feel it.
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Dreams, you know, are what you wake up from.
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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.
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You've got to work with your mistakes until they look intended. Understand?
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I think a little menace is fine to have in a story. For one thing, it's good for the circulation.
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She won't give him back his look.
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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.
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That's all we have, finally, the words, and they had better be the right ones.
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You have to have been in love to write poetry.
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Life and death matters, yes. And the question of how to behave in this world, how to go in the face of everything. Time is short and the water is rising.
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I am a cigarette with a body attached to it
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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.
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