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The fiction Im most interested in has lines of reference to the real world.
Raymond Carver
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Raymond Carver
Age: 50 †
Born: 1938
Born: May 25
Died: 1988
Died: August 2
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Get in, get out. Don't linger. Go on.
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I am a cigarette with a body attached to it
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I could hear my heart beating. I could hear everyone's heart. I could hear the human noise we sat there making, not one of us moving, not even when the room went dark.
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