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Raymond Clevie Carver, Jr. – amerykański prozaik i poeta, autor krótkich opowiadań.

✵ 25. Maj 1938 – 2. Sierpień 1988  •  Natępne imiona ريموند كارفر, ریموند کارور
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Raymond Carver: 51 cytatów0 Polubień

Raymond Carver: Cytaty po angielsku

“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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Raymond Carver

“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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Raymond Carver książka What We Talk About When We Talk About Love

Wariant: and it ought to make us feel ashamed when we talk like we know what we're talking about when we talk about love.
Źródło: What We Talk About When We Talk About Love

“I loved you so much once. I did. More than anything in the whole wide world. Imagine that. What a laugh that is now. Can you believe it? We were so intimate once upon a time I can't believe it now. The memory of being that intimate with somebody. We were so intimate I could puke. I can't imagine ever being that intimate with somebody else. I haven't been.”

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

“There was a time when I thought I loved my first wife more than life itself. But now I hate her guts. I do. How do you explain that? What happened to that love? What happened to it, is what I'd like to know. I wish someone could tell me.”

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

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

“Then I said something. I said, Suppose, just suppose, nothing had ever happened. Suppose this was for the first time. Just suppose. It doesn't hurt to suppose. Say none of the other had ever happened. You know what I mean? Then what? I said.”

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

“And did you get what
you wanted from this life, even so?
I did.
And what did you want?
To call myself beloved, to feel myself
beloved on the earth.”

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Raymond Carver książka A New Path to the Waterfall

Źródło: A New Path to the Waterfall

“But I can hardly sit still. I keep fidgeting, crossing one leg and then the other. I feel like I could throw off sparks, or break a window--maybe rearrange all the furniture.”

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

“Dreams, you know, are what you wake up from.”

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Raymond Carver książka Cathedral

Źródło: Cathedral

“Honey, no offense, but sometimes I think I could shoot you and watch you kick.”

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

“You've got to work with your mistakes until they look intended. Understand?”

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Raymond Carver książka Cathedral

Źródło: Cathedral

“there isn't enough of anything
as long as we live. But at intervals
a sweetness appears and, given a chance
prevails.”

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Źródło: Ultramarine: Poems

“This is awful. I don't know what's going to happen to me or to anyone else in the world.”

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

“He wondered if she wondered if he were watching her.”

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Raymond Carver książka Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?

Źródło: Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?

“Something’s died in me,” she goes. “It took a long time for it to do it, but it’s dead. You’ve killed something, just like you’d took an axe to it. Everything is dirt now.”

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

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

“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.”

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“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.”

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Źródło: Distance and other stories

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

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Raymond Carver książka Cathedral

Źródło: Cathedral

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

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Źródło: 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.”

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

Źródło: 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.”

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

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

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Źródło: Where Water Comes Together with Other Water: Poems