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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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She won't give him back his look.
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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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I am too nervous to eat pie.
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I guess my writing has changed as my life has.
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That's all we have, finally, the words, and they had better be the right ones.
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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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The smooth stones you pick up and examine under the moon's light have been made blue from the sea. Next morning when you pull them from your trouser pocket, they are still blue.
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I'm always learning something. Learning never ends.
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Happiness. It comes on unexpectedly. And goes beyond, really, any early morning talk about it.
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Get in, get out. Don't linger. Go on.
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What good are insights? They only make things worse.
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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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Don’t complain, don’t explain.
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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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You're...writing for other writers to an extent-the dead writers whose work you admire, as well as the living writers you like to read.
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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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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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There is no answer. It's okay. But even if it wasn't okay, what am I supposed to do?
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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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