Raymond Carver - Morning Quotes

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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.

Raymond Carver

Happiness. It comes on unexpectedly. And goes beyond, really, any early morning talk about it.

Raymond Carver

That morning she pours Teacher's over my belly and licks it off. That afternoon she tries to jump out the window.

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Woke up this morning with a terrific urge to lie in bed all day and read.

Raymond Carver

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.

Raymond Carver