She won't give him back his look. - Raymond Carver

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He says, "I have loved you since the first moment I saw you. I wanted you then, and when I thought you didn't want me, I turned my love into hate. " "Ethan. . . " Before I say another word his mouth comes down over mine and he kisses me.

Raymond Carver

She won't give him back his look.

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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.

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

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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.

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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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Our native land charms us with inexpressible sweetness, and never never allows us to forget that we belong to it. [Lat. , Nescio qua natale solum dulcedine captos Ducit, et immemores non sinit esse sui. ]

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I'll think about something else. I'll just sit quietly. If I could sit still. If I could sit still, maybe I could read. Oh, all the books are about people who love each other, truly and sweetly. What do they want to write about that for? Don't they know it isn't true? Don't they know it's a lie, it's a God-damned lie? What do they have to tell about that for, when they know how it hurts?

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It's easier to serve God without a vision, easier to work for God without a call, because then you are not bothered by what God requires; common sense is your guide, veneered over with Christian sentiment. But once you receive a commission from Jesus Christ the memory of what God wants will always come like a goad, and you will no longer be able to work for Him on the common sense basis.

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