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Raymond Carver Quotes: You have to have been in love to write poetry.
         

You have to have been in love to write poetry.


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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.



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?



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.





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Bring your dreams into reality. Believe in yourself. You know you have what it takes to make your dreams come true. Start now and work with ambition for total success. Aim high and make it happen.




I started out as an artist, and I continue to think of myself as an artist first, and a technologist and entrepreneur after that.

I started out as an artist, and I continue to think of myself as an artist first, and a technologist and entrepreneur after that.



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I loved working on Wall Street. I loved the meritocracy of it and the camaraderie of the trading floor.



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Those who love most, see most.



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God is represented as infinite, eternal, incomprehensible; he is contained under every predicate in non that the logic of ignorance could fabricate.



The Governor was strong upon The Regulation Act: The Doctor said that Death was but A scientific fact: And twice a day the Chaplain called, And left a little tract.

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I'm not a genre film filmmaker. I'd rather look for a topic that I think we need to bring up and discuss because there's something about the issues in the film.

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The blue states we were able to turn red and basically haven't been red since Ronald Reagan. I think ObamaCare was the bigger hit.

The blue states we were able to turn red and basically haven't been red since Ronald Reagan. I think ObamaCare was the bigger hit.




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