He wondered if she wondered if he were watching her. - Raymond Carver

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If you can get to a girl and make a difference in her life, you're actually going to have a greater impact on a woman's life. If you don't get to her as a girl, you may not be able ever to help her as a woman.

Raymond Carver

He wondered if she wondered if he were watching her.

Ifs, Watching, Wondered

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

Appears, Chance, Enough, Long, Prevails

And what did you want? To call myself beloved, to feel myself beloved on the earth.

Beloved, Call, Earth, I Love You, Want

Life and death matters, yes. And the question of how to behave in this world, how to go in the face of everything. Time is short and the water is rising.

Face, Life And Death, Question, Rising, Water, World

If we're lucky, writer and reader alike, we'll finish the last line or two of a short story and then just sit for a minute, quietly. Ideally, we'll ponder what we've just written or read; maybe our hearts or intellects will have been moved off the peg just a little from where they were before. Our body temperature will have gone up, or down, by a degree. Then, breathing evenly and steadily once more, we'll collect ourselves, writers and readers alike, get up, "created of warm blood and nerves" as a Chekhov character puts it, and go on to the next thing: Life. Always life.

Body, Character, Chekhov, Heart, Hearts, Writing

That's all we have, finally, the words, and they had better be the right ones.

Ones, Right, Words, Writing

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Dan Barker

Some theists, observing that all 'effects' need a cause, assert that God is a cause but not an effect. But no one has ever observed an uncaused cause and simply inventing one merely assumes what the argument wishes to prove.

Atheism, Cause, Effects, Observing, Religion, Wish

Kathy Calvin

Difference, Differences, Girl, Impact, Make

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Seek happiness in tranquility and avoid ambition even if it be only the apparently innocent one of distinguishing yourself in science and discoveries.

Ambition, Discovery, Happiness, Seek, Tranquility

Jack Hyles

A person who will not take care of the little things will not take care of the big things, for big things are but an accumulation of little things.

Care, Littles, Little Things, Take, Accumulation

Ronald Reagan

Admittedly, there is a risk in any course we follow other than this, but every lesson in history tells us that the greater risk lies in appeasement, and this is the specter our well-meaning liberal friends refuse to face.

Lying, Presidential, Risk, Specter, Admittedly, Refuse