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Raymond Clevie Carver, Jr., né le 25 mai 1938 à Clatskanie dans l'Oregon et mort le 2 août 1988 à Port Angeles dans l'État de Washington, est un écrivain américain. Également poète, Carver est avant tout considéré comme un nouvelliste de premier plan. Wikipedia  

✵ 25. mai 1938 – 2. août 1988  •  Autres noms ريموند كارفر, ریموند کارور
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“La chose dont je parle ici a une parenté avec le style, mais ne se ramène pas au seul style. C'est la griffe particulière et reconnaissable entre toutes qu'un écrivain appose à tout ce qu'il écrit. Ce n'est pas le talent. Le talent, ça court les rues. Mais un écrivain qui a une façon spéciale de voir les choses et qui donne une forme artistique à cette manière de voir est un écrivain qui a des chances de durer.”

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

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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.”

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Raymond Carver livre 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.”

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

“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.”

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Raymond Carver livre 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.”

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Raymond Carver livre Elephant

Source: Elephant and Other Stories

“When you live in the dark for so long, you begin to love it. And it loves you back, and isn’t that the point? You think, the face turns to the shadows, and just as well. It accepts, it heals, it allows. But it also devours.”

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“Nights without beginning that had no end. Talking about a past as if it'd really happened. Telling themselves that this time next year, this time next year, things were going to be different.”

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“That morning she pours Teacher's over my belly and licks it off. That afternoon she tries to jump out the window.”

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“All of us, all of us, all of us trying to save our immortal souls, some ways seemingly more round about and mysterious than others. We are having a good time here. But hope all will be revealed soon.”

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Source: All of Us: The Collected Poems

“We knew our days were numbered. We had fouled up our lives and we were getting ready for a shake-up.”

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

“I'm moving to Nevada. Either there or kill myself.”

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

“The light was draining out of the room, going back through the window where it had come from.”

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

Source: What We Talk About When We Talk About Love

“She won't give him back his look.”

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Raymond Carver livre Cathedral

Source: Cathedral

“All this, all of this love we're talking about, it would just be a memory. Maybe not even a memory. Am I wrong? Am I way off base? Because I want you to set me straight if you think I'm wrong. I want to know. I mean, I don't know anything, and I'm the first one to admit it.”

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

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

“Drinking’s funny. When I look back on it, all of our important decisions have been figured out when we were drinking. Even when we talked about having to cut back on drinking, we’d be sitting at the kitchen table or out at the picnic table with a six-pack or whiskey.”

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

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

“Mel thought real love was nothing less than spiritual love. He'd said he'd spent five years in a seminary before quitting to go to medical school. He said he still looked back on those years in the seminary as the most important years of his life.”

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

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