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And did you get what you wanted from this life even so? i did.
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Maxine said it was another tragedy in a long line of low-rent tragedies.
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Woke up this morning with a terrific urge to lie in bed all day and read.
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You've got to work with your mistakes until they look intended. Understand?
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Write about what you know, and what do you know better than your own secrets?
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Booze takes a lot of time and effort if you're going to do a good job with it.
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That's all we have, finally, the words, and they had better be the right ones.
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Honey, no offense, but sometimes I think I could shoot you and watch you kick.
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A man can go along obeying all the rules and then it don't matter a damn anymore.
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You have to eat and keep going. Eating is a small, good thing in a time like this.
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And what did you want? To call myself beloved, to feel myself beloved on the earth.
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There is no answer. It's okay. But even if it wasn't okay, what am I supposed to do?
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In short, everything about his life was different for him at the bottom of that well.
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This is awful. I don't know what's going to happen to me or to anyone else in the world.
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Remember Haydn's 104 symphonies. Not all of them were great. But there were 104 of them.
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There was this funny thing of anything could happen now that we realized everything had.
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Happiness. It comes on unexpectedly. And goes beyond, really, any early morning talk about it.
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I think a little menace is fine to have in a story. For one thing, it's good for the circulation.
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I dressed and went for a walk - determined not to return until I took in what Nature had to offer.
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Isak Dinesen said that she wrote a little every day, without hope and without despair. I like that.
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We knew our days were numbered. We had fouled up our lives and we were getting ready for a shake-up.
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Every great or even every very good writer makes the world over according to his own specifications.
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The places where water comes together with other water. Those places stand out in my mind like holy places.
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It ought to make us feel ashamed when we talk like we know what we're talking about when we talk about love.
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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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Destiny is the invention of the cowardly, and the resigned.
Ignazio Silone
Raymond Carver
Born:
May 25, 1938
Died:
August 2, 1988
(aged 50)
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