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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.

Raymond Carver

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Raymond Carver
Age: 50 †
Born: 1938
Born: May 25
Died: 1988
Died: August 2
Author
Novelist
Poet
Prosaist
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Writer
Clatskanie
Oregon
Everything
Behave
Matter
Matters
Time
Short
Life
Question
World
Face
Faces
Water
Death
Rising

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