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Raymond Carver Quotes

I think marriage is one of those things that writers draw on, one of those emotional reservoirs that go way back.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: american
Birth: May 25, 1938 - August 2, 1988

Topics

Marriage Think Back Go Way Things

While unions did not play a part in my family life when I was being brought up, my early years were most certainly spent in a working-class community.

Life Family Community Early Play Up

It is easy to say that there are the rich and the poor, and so something should be done. But in history, there are always the rich and the poor. If the poor were not as poor, we would still call them the poor. I mean, whoever has less can be called the poor. You will always have the 10% that have less and the 10% that have the most.

John Forbes Nash, Jr.

History Rich Easy You Done Say

I think it is likely that within every department there are some officers who subtly, if not otherwise, are biased in the way they go about enforcing the law. I think that is just life. We know that to be true.

Life Law Think Be True Know True

What is important to me is that the world understand that the problems of the Dead Sea concern not only residents of the region but humanity.

Jean-Michel Jarre

Sea Me World Problems Humanity Dead

Disillusionment can come as fast as a gust, but building faith that the government won't inflate again is like building a new sailboat, a project of years.

Faith Government Building Fast New

A drunk truck driver ran over me. I was in a Volkswagen. It was horrible. It sounds like a cliche, but anything that doesn't kill you makes you stronger. I give a lot of credit to my dad, who was a very strong guy.

Robert David Hall

Me Truck Strong Credit Stronger You

I think what's hard for me is not that I don't get downtime to chill, it's that I don't get time to make music.

Music Time Me Think Chill Hard

Literature, of course, is not a contest.

Literature Course Contest

I live a super-healthy lifestyle not because it's sensible or that I'm contrite, but because I need to keep my focus on the music I'm making. To do that, I need to be wide awake.

Live Music Focus Lifestyle Need

If you only do little clusters - three or four songs by one, and another, and then yet another - you lose the opportunity to think your way into the composer's mind, since, after all, most of these pieces are quite brief.

Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

Opportunity Mind Think You Lose Way

I think people should be authentic and who they are. If that calls people to same-sex attraction and same-sex marriage, then they should be true to who they are, and I think that the world could benefit by more love.

Love Marriage People World Think

Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.

Motivational Start You Where Use

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