Raymond Carver Quotes
I could hear my heart beating. I could hear everyone's heart. I could hear the human noise we sat there making, not one of us moving, not even when the room went dark.
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I have always believed that astrophysics should be the extrapolation of laboratory physics, that we must begin from the present universe and work our way backward to progressively more remote and uncertain epochs.
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I don't fight creativity. I don't fight against not being creative. If I'm not being creative, I'm not forcing it.
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When I was fired from my post as General of the Fighter Arm, I was to give proof that this jet was a superior fighter. And that's when we did it. I think we did it.
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May our lives be born from the beauty of darkness, and shine with the possibility of light.
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I'm very artistic - I feel like ever since I was born I've been drawing. I actually have a picture in my room that I painted, and people are always like "Where did you buy that?" It's cool that people are impressed by it.
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I had some jokes that were dirty. And some of it is when I started making appearances on Conan and Letterman back in the late '90s, I think. You had to remove the curse words, or you couldn't do some of the more explicit jokes.
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These are the soul's changes. I don't believe in ageing. I believe in forever altering one's aspect to the sun. Hence my optimism.
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The poison by which the weaker nature is destroyed is strengthening to the strong individual and he does not call it poison.
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The Master said, “If your conduct is determined solely by considerations of profit you will arouse great resentment.
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I don't say everything, but I paint everything.
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Oakland revolved around Forbes Field. Nothing in the city could match that atmosphere.
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Neither a pathology nor an index as such of moral default, stupidity is nonetheless linked to the most dangerous failures of human endeavor.
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As has been said, standards are always out of date - that is why we call them standards.
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It is wise to withhold one's heart and mind from men who think themselves superior.
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Never be afraid to let people go if they're not right; often that's the only way you can make room for the right person.
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I could hear my heart beating. I could hear everyone's heart. I could hear the human noise we sat there making, not one of us moving, not even when the room went dark.
