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“It's possible, in a poem or short story, to write about commonplace things and objects using commonplace but precise language, and to endow those things—a chair, a window curtain, a fork, a stone, a woman's earring—with immense, even startling power.”

Raymond Carver

“But he stays by the window, remembering that life. They had laughed. They had leaned on each other and laughed until the tears had come, while everything else—the cold and where he'd go in it—was outside, for a while anyway.”

Raymond Carver

Source: Distance and other stories

“There is no answer. It's okay. But even if it wasn't okay, what am I supposed to do?”

Raymond Carver book Cathedral

Source: Cathedral

“Booze takes a lot of time and effort if you're going to do a good job with it.”

Raymond Carver

Source: Where I'm Calling From: New and Selected Stories

“My heart is broken,” she goes. “It’s turned to a piece of stone. I’m no good. That’s what’s as bad as anything, that I’m no good anymore.”

Raymond Carver book What We Talk About When We Talk About Love

Source: What We Talk About When We Talk About Love (1981)

“There was this funny thing of anything could happen now that we realized everything had.”

Raymond Carver

Source: Where I'm Calling From: New and Selected Stories

“My lungs are thick with the smoke of your absence.”

Raymond Carver

Source: Where Water Comes Together with Other Water: Poems

“I am too nervous to eat pie.”

Raymond Carver

“The places where water comes together with other water. Those places stand out in my mind like holy places.”

Raymond Carver

Source: Where Water Comes Together with Other Water: Poems

“A man can go along obeying all the rules and then it don’t matter a damn anymore.”

Raymond Carver book What We Talk About When We Talk About Love

Source: What We Talk About When We Talk About Love (1981)

“You see, this happened a few months ago, but it's still going on right now, and it ought to make us feel ashamed when we talk like we know what we're talking about when we talk about love.”

Raymond Carver

Source: Where I'm Calling From: New and Selected Stories

“What good are insights? They only make things worse.”

Raymond Carver

“Ralph also took some classes in philosophy and literature and felt himself on the brink of some kind of huge discovery about himself. But it never came.”

Raymond Carver book Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?

Source: Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?

“I’d like to go out in the front yard and shout something. “None of this is worth it!” That’s what I’d like people to hear.”

Raymond Carver book Elephant

Source: Elephant and Other Stories

“I'm always learning something. Learning never ends.”

Raymond Carver book Cathedral

Source: Cathedral

“What do any of us really know about love?”

Raymond Carver

“You're a beautiful drunk, daughter.
But you're a drunk.”

Raymond Carver