Raymond Clevie Carver Jr. (May 25, 1938 – August 2, 1988) was an American short-story writer and poet. Carver contributed to the revitalization of the American short story during the 1980s.
Fiction shows the external effects of internal conditions. Be aware of the tension between internal and external movement.
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.
There is no God, and conversation is a dying art.
And what did you want? To call myself beloved, to feel myself beloved on the earth.
Dreams, you know, are what you wake up from.
That morning she pours Teacher's over my belly and licks it off. That afternoon she tries to jump out the window.
A man can go along obeying all the rules and then it don't matter a damn anymore.
Remember Haydn's 104 symphonies. Not all of them were great. But there were 104 of them.
and did you get what you wanted from this life even so? i did.