Raymond Carver Quotes
It ought to make us feel ashamed when we talk like we know what we're talking about when we talk about love.
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As the anti-slavery community, we must together ensure that this attention is transferred into concrete action and results.
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Let us have peace.
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So yeah, I am definitely a blues man at heart.
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I am very much against makeup and high heels and all that we inherit as 'beauty.'
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Opinions are a private matter. The public has an interest only in judgments.
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I've been in elementary education for years and my belief is that Christmas pageants in schools are little more than conditioning kids for the Christian religion.
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It's difficult when you want it all.
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I had studied at Harvard and MIT astronomy and a lot about the heavens and the star system and so forth.
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In India, nobody really talks about works of art; they always talk about the appreciation of art. You buy this for 3,000 rupees, it'll become 30,000 in two months.
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Skiffle was a name that was attached to what was, in essence, American folk music with a beat.
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For some reason, the military seems more afraid of gay people than they are against terrorists, but they're very brave with the terrorists... If the terrorists ever got a hold of this information, they'd get a platoon of lesbians to chase us out of Baghdad.
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The loves and hours of the life of a man, They are swift and sad, being born of the sea. Hours that rejoice and regret for a span, Born with a man's breath, mortal as he; Loves that are lost ere they come to birth, Weeds of the wave, without fruit upon earth. I lose what I long for, save what I can, My love, my love, and no love for me!
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We have had a great depression in agriculture, caused mainly by several seasons of bad harvests, and some of our traders have suffered much from a too rapid extension in prosperous years.
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Fans always ask me to marry them so I'll have a lot of wives
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Talent is only interesting if it's challenged.
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I'm like really famous. I got a famous anus.
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The powerful notion of entropy, which comes from a very special branch of physics … is certainly useful in the study of communication and quite helpful when applied in the theory of language.
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When I was with the serpent-handlers in Tennessee, it was the most bizarre method of worship I could think of. Yet when you sit with these people, you can kind of see how it makes sense.
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I just need to be in a position where I can control the ball, make smart decisions, and do what I'm coached up to do.
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Your intentions are your nonphysical causes that set energy into motion. They create a multitude of effects and, therefore, determine the experiences of your life. This is one of the most important things that you can know. It is also something that you can see for yourself is true.
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I talk to my typewriter and that is what I've been working on for 40 years-how to write for talking.
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Some people confuse acceptance with apathy, but there's all the difference in the world. Apathy fails to distinguish between what can and what cannot be helped; acceptance makes that distinction. Apathy paralyzes the will- to- action; acceptance frees it by relieving it of impossible burdens.
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It ought to make us feel ashamed when we talk like we know what we're talking about when we talk about love.
