Raymond Carver Quotes
There are significant moments in everyone's day that can make literature. That's what you ought to write about.
Raymond Carver
Quotes to Explore
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New York City has no need to move on from 9/11 because, in a sense, it moved on days after, moments after.
Karan Mahajan
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I had a major bug for cities and for paintings and literature and all the things I thought went on in cities.
Garth Risk Hallberg
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I had no student friends to talk to about literature. My tutor was a really nice man, very charming - but he had no literary judgment.
V. S. Naipaul
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Music means different things to different people and sometimes even different things to the same person at different moments of his life.
Daniel Barenboim
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I read whenever possible, and I buy books all the time, sometimes online, but mostly from bookshops. I love literature. If you want to understand art, it's important to understand what is also happening in literature, in music, in science, in architecture.
Hans-Ulrich Obrist
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'Forrest Gump' is filled full of moments where your heart just cheers.
Sally Field
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Well documented, the relationship of literature to myth in the Western world has undergone much change over the millennia, as first the age of gods fell away before the notion of a single god, and then, for many people, that single god slipped away, too.
Kate Bernheimer
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I am a literary animal. For me, everything ends in literature.
Carlos Fuentes
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Great literature should do some good to the reader: must quicken his perception though dull, and sharpen his discrimination though blunt, and mellow the rawness of his personal opinions.
A. E. Housman
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But when you hear the complete album, it gets dark, really straight-up rock, with some really intimate moments with just me and the piano. It's not completely me because there are parts of me that aren't on that song, that are on the album.
Vanessa Carlton
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The reason that gets me is, and the greatest part of my job and what I do, is the humanity of it and there’s certain moments where that really cuts through.
Kylie Minogue
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I always loved watching movies because I loved what certain moments inside of films did to me.
Jason Silva
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I think cool moments like winning a Grammy deserve a nice little party where you really soak it in and not have to work and stuff. I do remember throwing a party on that Grammy night, but it was work.
Ciara
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On almost anything someone does in the computer business, you can go back in the literature and prove someone had done it earlier.
Ken Olsen
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I believe that prizes are useful things for the disciplines, whether we are talking about chemistry or we're talking... It motivates, it, you know, inspires, it encourages and it brings, in the case of literature, it brings literature, the arts out of the ghetto.
Wole Soyinka
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The ones the listeners loved most of all in those early years were the four Lennon girls who became the whole nation's little sisters.
Lawrence Welk
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I became a performer because it was what I enjoyed doing.
Richard Pryor
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There are significant moments in everyone's day that can make literature. That's what you ought to write about.
Raymond Carver
