There was a time when I thought I loved my first wife more than life itself. But now … - Raymond Carver

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Communists should set an example in being practical as well as far-sighted. For only by being practical can they fulfil the appointed tasks, and only far-sightedness can prevent them from losing their bearings in the march forward.

Raymond Carver

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.

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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.

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

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