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Raymond Carver Quotes: Write about what you know, and what do you know better than your own secrets?
         

Write about what you know, and what do you know better than your own secrets?


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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.

there isn't enough of anything as long as we live. But at intervals a sweetness appears and, given a chance prevails.



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.

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.



That's all we have, finally, the words, and they had better be the right ones.

That's all we have, finally, the words, and they had better be the right ones.



And what did you want? To call myself beloved, to feel myself beloved on the earth.

And what did you want? To call myself beloved, to feel myself beloved on the earth.



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.

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.



It ought to make us feel ashamed when we talk like we know what we're talking about when we talk about love.

It ought to make us feel ashamed when we talk like we know what we're talking about when we talk about love.



The places where water comes together with other water. Those places stand out in my mind like holy places.

The places where water comes together with other water. Those places stand out in my mind like holy places.



Dreams, you know, are what you wake up from.

Dreams, you know, are what you wake up from.



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.

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.



He wondered if she wondered if he were watching her.

He wondered if she wondered if he were watching her.


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Let, then, the word be preached, and the sins of men will be rebuked, lust will be restrained, and some oppositions will be made against sin, though that be not the effect aimed at.

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When you find that your life is out of alignment with your grandest idea of yourself, seek to change it.

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We will make the lives of the infidels hell - millions of martyrs marching on Jerusalem.

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