Raymond Carver Quotes
Raymond Carver Quotes
They talked on into the early morning, the high, pale cast of light in the windows, and they did not think of leaving.
1991That's all we have, finally, the words, and they had better be the right ones.
3625 My circumstances of unrelieved responsibility and permanent distraction necessitated the short story form.
1068 I'm a heart surgeon, sure, but I'm just a mechanic. I go in and I fuck around and I fix things. Shit.
4332 It ought to make us feel ashamed when we talk like we know what we're talking about when we talk about love.
3490 Late Fragment
And did you get what
you wanted from this life, even so?
I did.
And what did you want?
To call myself beloved, to feel myself
beloved on the earth.
2095 Honey, no offense, but sometimes I think I could shoot you and watch you kick.
4476 I've crossed some kind of invisible line. I feel as if I've come to a place I never thought I'd have to come to. And I don't know how I got here. It's a strange place. It's a place where a little harmless dreaming and then some sleepy, early-morning talk has led me into considerations of death and annihilation.
4426 But I can hardly sit still. I keep fidgeting, crossing one leg and then the other. I feel like I could throw off sparks, or break a window-maybe rearrange all the furniture.
1066 there isn't enough of anything
as long as we live. But at intervals
a sweetness appears and, given a chance
prevails.
2250 Happiness. It comes on
unexpectedly. And goes beyond, really,
any early morning talk about it.
4142 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.
1615 You see, this happened a few months ago, but it's still going on right now, and it ought to make us feel ashamed when we talk like we know what we're talking about when we talk about love.
2586 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.
3339 That's right,' Mel said. 'Some vassal would come along and spear the bastard in the name of love. Or whatever the fuck it was they fought over in those days.'
Same things we fight over these days,' Terri said.
Laura said, 'Nothing's changed.
2398 Dreams, you know, are what you wake up from.
1491 Don’t complain, don’t explain.
1795 We knew our days were numbered. We had fouled up our lives and we were getting ready for a shake-up.
2628 Nights without beginning that had no end. Talking about a past as if it'd really happened. Telling themselves that this time next year, this time next year, things were going to be different.
2806 I'm always learning something. Learning never ends.
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