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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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Clatskanie
Oregon
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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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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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When a reader finishes a wonderful story and lays it aside, he should have to pause for a minute and collect himself.
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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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Don’t complain, don’t explain.
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There was this funny thing of anything could happen now that we realized everything had.
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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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I dressed and went for a walk - determined not to return until I took in what Nature had to offer.
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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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