Raymond CarverThere was this funny thing of anything could happen now that we realized everything had. ✨ Raymond Carver (2015). What We Talk About When We Talk About Love, p.28, Vintage371HumorLove
Raymond CarverI am a cigarette with a body attached to it ✨ Raymond Carver, Marshall Bruce Gentry, William L. Stull (1990). Conversations with Raymond Carver, p.10, Univ. Press of Mississ… ▶361Humanity
Raymond CarverMy circumstances of unrelieved responsibility and permanent distraction necessitated the short story form.372Humor
Raymond CarverMy heart is broken,” she goes. “It’s turned to a piece of stone. I’m no good. That’s what’s as bad as anything, that I’m no good anymore. ✨ Raymond Carver (2015). Where I'm … ▶374Love
Raymond CarverThat's all we have, finally, the words, and they had better be the right ones. ✨ Raymond Carver (2015). Call If You Need Me: The Uncollected Fiction and Other Prose, p.102, … ▶375Life
Raymond CarverDreams, you know, are what you wake up from. ✨ Raymond Carver (2015). Cathedral, p.172, Vintage375Philosophy
Raymond CarverMel thought real love was nothing less than spiritual love. He'd said he'd spent five years in a seminary before quitting to go to medical school. He said he still looked back on … ▶364LifeLoveThought
Raymond CarverAll this, all of this love we're talking about, it would just be a memory. Maybe not even a memory. Am I wrong? Am I way off base? Because I want you to set me straight if you thi… ▶332LoveThought
Raymond CarverI think a little menace is fine to have in a story. For one thing, it's good for the circulation. ✨ Raymond Carver (2015). Fires: Essays, Poems, Stories, p.27, Vintage377Thought
Raymond CarverBooze takes a lot of time and effort if you're going to do a good job with it. ✨ Raymond Carver (2015). What We Talk About When We Talk About Love, p.27, Vintage355LoveTime
Raymond Carverthere isn't enough of anything as long as we live. But at intervals a sweetness appears and, given a chance prevails. ✨ Raymond Carver (2015). All of Us: The Collected Poems… ▶356Love
Raymond CarverIt ought to make us feel ashamed when we talk like we know what we're talking about when we talk about love. ✨ Raymond Carver (2015). What We Talk About When We Talk About L… ▶312Love
Raymond CarverIt's strange. You never start out life with the intention of becoming a bankrupt or an alcoholic or a cheat and a thief. Or a liar.312Life
Raymond CarverI 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. ✨ Ray… ▶368HumanityLove
Raymond CarverWoke up this morning with a terrific urge to lie in bed all day and read. Fought against it for a minute. Then looked out the window at the rain. And gave over. Put myself entirel… ▶357LifeReading
Raymond CarverDon’t complain, don’t explain. ✨ Raymond Carver (2015). Fires: Essays, Poems, Stories, p.26, Vintage281Truth
Raymond CarverShe serves me a piece of it a few minutes out of the oven. A little steam rises from the slits on top. Sugar and spice - cinnamon - burned into the crust. But she's wearing these … ▶336Love
Raymond CarverIt's possible, in a poem or short story, to write about commonplace things and objects using commonplace but precise language, and to endow those things—a chair, a window curtain,… ▶337Politics
Raymond CarverSomething’s died in me,” she goes. “It took a long time for it to do it, but it’s dead. You’ve killed something, just like you’d took an axe to it. Everything is dirt now. ✨… ▶282DeathLoveTime
Raymond CarverFiction shows the external effects of internal conditions. Be aware of the tension between internal and external movement.327Life
Raymond CarverWhat good are insights? They only make things worse.338Humanity
Raymond CarverThat was in Crescent City, California, up near the Oregon border. I left soon after. But today I was thinking of that place, of Crescent City, and of how I was trying out a new li… ▶327LifeReadingThought
Raymond CarverWriters will be judged by what they write.283Hope
Raymond CarverI loved you so much once. I did. More than anything in the whole wide world. Imagine that. What a laugh that is now. Can you believe it? We were so intimate once upon a time I can… ▶262HumorLoveTime
Raymond CarverAll of us, all of us, all of us trying to save our immortal souls, some ways seemingly more round about and mysterious than others. We are having a good time here. But hope all wi… ▶284DeathHopeTime
Raymond CarverBut he stays by the window, remembering that life. They had laughed. They had leaned on each other and laughed until the tears had come, while everything else—the cold and where h… ▶318HumorLife
Raymond CarverThere is no answer. It's okay. But even if it wasn't okay, what am I supposed to do? ✨ Raymond Carver (2015). Cathedral, p.121, Vintage307Death
Raymond CarverMy life is going to change. I feel it. ✨ Raymond Carver (2015). Where I'm Calling From: Selected Stories, p.70, Vintage296Life
Raymond CarverBut 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. 3210Life
Raymond CarverI'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 plac… ▶231DeathReflectionThought
