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Raymond Carver Quote: “You sound like a nice man,” the woman said. “Do I? Well, that’s nice of you to say.” He knew he should hang up now, but it was good to hear a voice, even his own, in the quiet room.”

101. “You sound like a nice man,” the woman said. “Do I? Well, that’s nice of you to say.” He knew he should hang up now, but it was good to hear a voice, even his own, in the quiet room.”

— Raymond Carver

Raymond Carver Quote: “It’s akin to style, what I’m talking about, but it isn’t style alone. It is the writer’s particular and unmistakable signature on everything he writes. It is his world and no other. This is one of the things that distinguishes one writer from another. Not talent. There’s plenty of that around. But a writer who has some special way of looking at things and who gives artistic expression to that way of looking: that writer may be around for a time.”

102. “It’s akin to style, what I’m talking about, but it isn’t style alone. It is the writer’s particular and unmistakable signature on everything he writes. It is his world and no other. This is one of the things that distinguishes one writer from another. Not talent. There’s plenty of that around. But a writer who has some special way of looking at things and who gives artistic expression to that way of looking: that writer may be around for a time.”

— Raymond Carver

Raymond Carver Quote: “He seemed full of some goodness she didn’t understand.”

103. “He seemed full of some goodness she didn’t understand.”

— Raymond Carver

Raymond Carver Quote: “Writers will be judged by what they write.”

104. “Writers will be judged by what they write.”

— Raymond Carver

Raymond Carver Quote: “What’s there to tell? The people over there embrace for a minute, and then they go inside the house together. They leave the light burning. Then they remember, and it goes out.”

105. “What’s there to tell? The people over there embrace for a minute, and then they go inside the house together. They leave the light burning. Then they remember, and it goes out.”

— Raymond Carver

Raymond Carver Quote: “The past is unclear. It’s as if there is a film over those early years. I can’t even be sure that the things I remember happening really happened to me.”

106. “The past is unclear. It’s as if there is a film over those early years. I can’t even be sure that the things I remember happening really happened to me.”

— Raymond Carver

Raymond Carver Quote: “He ran his fingers through my hair. He did it slowly, as if thinking about something else. He ran his fingers through my hair. He did it tenderly, as a lover would.”

107. “He ran his fingers through my hair. He did it slowly, as if thinking about something else. He ran his fingers through my hair. He did it tenderly, as a lover would.”

— Raymond Carver

Raymond Carver Quote: “I don’t want to talk to anybody. Actually, I’d talk to Molly, if I could, but I can’t any longer – she’s somebody else now. She isn’t Molly any more. But – what can I say? – I’m somebody else, too.”

108. “I don’t want to talk to anybody. Actually, I’d talk to Molly, if I could, but I can’t any longer – she’s somebody else now. She isn’t Molly any more. But – what can I say? – I’m somebody else, too.”

— Raymond Carver

Raymond Carver Quote: “In his better moments, Mr Baxter is a decent, ordinary guy – a guy you wouldn’t mistake for anyone special. But he is special. In my book, he is. For one thing he has a full night’s sleep behind him, and he’s just embraced his wife before leaving for work. But even before he goes, he’s already expected home a set number of hours later. True, in the grander scheme of things, his return will be an event of small moment – but an event nonetheless.”

109. “In his better moments, Mr Baxter is a decent, ordinary guy – a guy you wouldn’t mistake for anyone special. But he is special. In my book, he is. For one thing he has a full night’s sleep behind him, and he’s just embraced his wife before leaving for work. But even before he goes, he’s already expected home a set number of hours later. True, in the grander scheme of things, his return will be an event of small moment – but an event nonetheless.”

— Raymond Carver

Raymond Carver Quote: “A small wax and sawdust log burned on the grate. A carton of five more sat ready on the hearth. He got up from the sofa and put them all in the fireplace. He watched until they flamed. Then he finished his soda and made for the patio door. On the way, he saw the pies lined up on the sideboard. He stacked them in his arms, all six, one for every ten times she had ever betrayed him.”

110. “A small wax and sawdust log burned on the grate. A carton of five more sat ready on the hearth. He got up from the sofa and put them all in the fireplace. He watched until they flamed. Then he finished his soda and made for the patio door. On the way, he saw the pies lined up on the sideboard. He stacked them in his arms, all six, one for every ten times she had ever betrayed him.”

— Raymond Carver

Raymond Carver Quote: “Imagine a woman who could never see herself as she was seen in the eyes of her loved one.”

111. “Imagine a woman who could never see herself as she was seen in the eyes of her loved one.”

— Raymond Carver

Raymond Carver Quote: “When I look back on it, all of our important decisions have been figured out when we were drinking.”

112. “When I look back on it, all of our important decisions have been figured out when we were drinking.”

— Raymond Carver

Raymond Carver Quote: “It seems to me we’re just beginners at love.”

113. “It seems to me we’re just beginners at love.”

— Raymond Carver

Raymond Carver Quote: “All this, all of this love we’re talking about, it would just be a memory. Maybe not even a memory.”

114. “All this, all of this love we’re talking about, it would just be a memory. Maybe not even a memory.”

— Raymond Carver

Raymond Carver Quote: “Though he continued to take classes here and there in the sciences and in business, 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.”

115. “Though he continued to take classes here and there in the sciences and in business, 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

Raymond Carver Quote: “There were things he wanted to say, grieving things, consoling things, things like that.”

116. “There were things he wanted to say, grieving things, consoling things, things like that.”

— Raymond Carver

Raymond Carver Quote: “I thought we’d be like that too when we got old enough. Dignified. And in a place. And people would come to our door.”

117. “I thought we’d be like that too when we got old enough. Dignified. And in a place. And people would come to our door.”

— Raymond Carver

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