Raymond Carver Quotes
Fiction shows the external effects of internal conditions. Be aware of the tension between internal and external movement.
Quotes to Explore
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I have become a prisoner of the peace movement. But you can't say that the termination is coming and then say that you are going back to your own garden to dig.
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Sea ice conditions have remained stable in Antarctica generally.
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We are seeing a great awakening. A national movement of We the People, brought together by what unites us - a shared love of liberty, and an understanding of the unlimited potential of free men and free women.
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In general, if signs of sectarianism do appear in a Socialist Party, these are only the products of the absence of a broad Labour movement in the country.
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I was in college in the '60s, and the whole feminist movement had swept me up.
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The women's movement ruined a permanent vacation.
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In conversion you are not attached primarily to an order, nor to an institution, nor a movement, nor a set of beliefs, nor a code of action - you are attached primarily to a Person, and secondarily to these other things.
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To me, steampunk and urban fantasy are naturally hinged together. And I think that's because I love the early gothic Victorian literature, and both things spring from that movement.
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And if I would have taken lessons I probably wouldn't have done it, and what forced me to do all this weird stuff on the guitar was I couldn't afford effects pedals, I didn't have all this stuff when I was a kid so I just tried to squeeze all the weird noises I could out of the guitar, which brings me to building guitars.
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We are now on the threshold of a newer movement, with a newer hope and a new inspiration.
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The modern movement of worship is designed to break down barriers between man and God, to remove the veil, as it were, from the fearsome holiness of God, which might cause us to tremble. It is designed to make us feel comfortable.
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but sometimes optimism is the only drug that works. But it’s sadly temporary in its effects.
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I've got to see my movie to see how I'm acting, see what little things I can learn about my craft.
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A large movement covers a small movement
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It is almost certain that excess in eating is the cause of almost all the diseases of the body, but its effects on the soul are even more disastrous.
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As long as there's not permanent damage to our energy infrastructure, the effects on the overall economy should be fairly modest.
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A temperament capable of receiving, through an imaginative medium, and under imaginative conditions, new and beautiful impressions, is the only temperament that can appreciate a work of art.
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The Occupy movement needs an organizing principle, and - just as the Tea Party did - it needs some actual measures of success. Choose one candidate whose agenda is squarely within that of the movement and make his or her electoral success a focal point.
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Your condition is NOT your conclusion.
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Time again for the waltz of smiles. Amazing how you sometimes make resolutions, tell yourself everything will be a certain way from now on, and then all it takes is a tiny movement of the lips to shatter your confidence in a certainty that seemed eternal.
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I buy companies for strategic reasons and operate them.
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Well, we can look each other shortly - either we check that we have to play or one gives a sign to end.
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Doubtless these are inconsequential perplexities. Still, inconsequential perplexities have now and again been known to become the fundamental mood of existence, one suspects.
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Fiction shows the external effects of internal conditions. Be aware of the tension between internal and external movement.
