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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I feel very grateful that for some reason I was raised to believe that I had permission to explore the creative world. I'm very aware of what a privilege that is, because most people don't grant themselves that permission, and I really think that's the only thing that separates people that call themselves artists from the rest of the world. It's suspending self-judgment for long enough to do something expressive.
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In the last hour, I have been offered immortality eight thousand times, the ship says. I hate negotiating with vasilevs.
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It's very hard to come across as a passionate human being in print. People can't hear the inflections in your voice.
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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.
