Raymond Carver Quotes
Art doesn't have to do anything. It just has to be there for the fierce pleasure we take in doing it.
Raymond Carver
Quotes to Explore
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I believe in 'soulmates,' especially growing up and seeing how much my parents loved each other. They always said that they had been married in past lives, too.
Nadia Bjorlin
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This is not a political issue. I know Florida's leadership has talked about a real commitment to helping our veterans. Now it's time for them to show it.
Ted Deutch
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What does that represent? There was never any question in plastic art, in poetry, in music, of representing anything. It is a matter of making something beautiful, moving, or dramatic - this is by no means the same thing.
Fernand Leger
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The Confederations Cup is interesting. It served Spain very well to take part and then go on to win the 2010 World Cup. We knew the stadiums, the atmosphere, the conditions and also the difficulties of a tournament which simulated the World Cup format.
Vicente del Bosque
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A man is honorable in proportion to the personal risks he takes for his opinion.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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What thrust us into war were not Hitler's political teachings: the cause, this time, was his successful attempt to establish a new economy. The causes of the war were: envy, greed, and fear.
J. F. C. Fuller
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Any nitwit can understand computers, and many do.
Ted Nelson
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I may have said the same thing before...but my explanation, I am sure, will always be different.
Oscar Wilde
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A man who takes himself too seriously will find that no one else takes him seriously.
Oscar Wilde
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Eloquence is logic on fire.
Lyman Beecher
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As iron is eaten away by rust, so the envious are consumed by their own passion.
Antisthenes
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I’ve got a new friend, all right. But what a gamble friendship is! Charlotte is fierce, brutal, scheming, bloodthirsty—everything I don’t like. How can I learn to like her, even though she is pretty and, of course, clever?
E. B. White
