Raymond Carver Quotes
Anyone can express himself or herself, but what writers and poets want to do in their work, more than simply express themselves, is communicate.
Quotes to Explore
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Time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum involved.
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Before I was 5, I did have a lot of time on my hands. I had no job and really no career, and I spent an awful lot of time listening to records. It was more the classical ones, really - Prokofiev, and I think there was some Mozart in there, and more impressionistic composers like Delius.
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Sling your guitar to wherever you're going, and you'll be amazed by the connective power of music: It knows no boundaries, cultures or class.
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Human activity is having a major impact on the planet. We consume or have diverted a large proportion of the productivity of the land and oceans. Our hunger for land crowds out fellow species. Our waste products pollute the waters, warm the atmosphere and acidify the oceans.
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My daughter and stepson are really broad-minded.
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If the KKK was smart enough, they would've created gangsta rap because it's such a caricature of black culture and black masculinity.
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Perhaps a hundred people assembled one evening, May 15, 1876, at the time when the country was celebrating the hundredth anniversary of its political independence.
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I see Vostok-6 quite often in the centre for cosmonaut training. And every time I pass it by, I stroke it and say, 'My lovely one, my best and most beautiful friend, my best and most beautiful man.'
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We're seeing the development of tactics in Iraq, such as suicide bombing. Insurgents have been driving cars with explosives into hotels and office buildings. The recruitment may be even more prolific outside Iraq.
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We shared our father with the world.
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I believe people have to follow their dreams - I did.
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I suppose I sometimes used to act like I wasn't a human being... Sometimes I look back at myself and remember things I used to say, or my hairstyle, and I cringe.
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Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat; the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.
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I'm not an experimental artist. I have no talent for that. I need a certain kind of antecedent form to follow.
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I don't mind One Direction. They're harmless, aren't they?
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I love writers. All of my best friends are writers.
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Poets are people who can still see the world through the eyes of children.
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Great writers are not those who tell us we shouldn’t play with fire, but those who make our fingers burn.
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If we bought everything on the Internet, our eyes and mouths and nostrils would probably begin to film over with a tegument - one initially tissue-thin and capable of being removed each morning, but which gradually thickened and hardened until we were imprisoned in our own tiny minds.
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When you're mad at someone, it's probably best not to break his arm with a baseball bat.
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Anyone can express himself or herself, but what writers and poets want to do in their work, more than simply express themselves, is communicate.
