Raymond Carver

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Birthdate May 25, 1938

Zodiac Gemini

Location Clatskanie, Oregon

Country United States of America

Etnhnicity

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I never wrote so much as a line worth a nickel when I was under the influence of alcohol

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

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

Tags: existentialism gazebo pessimism

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.

Tags: know life suppose

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

Tags: honey intimacy joke kick love offense shoot sweet violence

I've crossed some kind of invisible line. I feel as if I've come to a place I never thought I'd have to come to. And I don't know how I got here. It's a strange place. It's a place where a little harmless dreaming and then some sleepy, early-morning talk has led me into considerations of death and annihilation.

Tags: confusion death dreaming insomnia life lost place sleep

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.

Tags: anxiety crazy excitement fireworks hyper life wild

That's right,' Mel said. 'Some vassal would come along and spear the bastard in the name of love. Or whatever the fuck it was they fought over in those days.'

Same things we fight over these days,' Terri said.

Laura said, 'Nothing's changed.

Tags: fighting love

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.

Tags: love shame talk time

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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I'm a heart surgeon, sure, but I'm just a mechanic. I go in and I fuck around and I fix things. Shit.

Tags: career heart love mechanic swearing work

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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