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What good are insights? They only make things worse.

Raymond Carver

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Raymond Carver
Age: 50 †
Born: 1938
Born: May 25
Died: 1988
Died: August 2
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Oregon
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I dressed and went for a walk - determined not to return until I took in what Nature had to offer.
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There's literary creation and literary business. When I first got something accepted, it gave my life a validation it didn't otherwise have.
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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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This is awful. I don't know what's going to happen to me or to anyone else in the world.
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That's all we have, finally, the words, and they had better be the right ones.
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Honey, no offense, but sometimes I think I could shoot you and watch you kick.
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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.
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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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There was this funny thing of anything could happen now that we realized everything had.
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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.
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You're a beautiful drunk, daughter. But you're a drunk.
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I am a cigarette with a body attached to it
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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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But he stays by the window, remembering that life. 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.
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You have to have been in love to write poetry.
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In the beginning, when I was trying to write, I couldnt turn off the outside world to the extent that I can now.
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A man without hands came to the door to sell me a photograph of my house. Except for the chrome hooks, he was an ordinary-looking man of fifty or so.
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My life is going to change. I feel it.
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