Raymond Carver

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• Raymond Carver, "Cathedral", 1983: A blunt observer, disinhibited, discovers blind passion. "It's really something" outside of everything. -- Rob Harnish
• ...there isn't enough of anything as long as we live. But at intervals a sweetness appears and, given a chance, prevails. Raymond Carver -- Emma Woolf
• Everyone is going out and here i am slowly dying of illness reading Raymond carver in the dark with no money -- Urethra Franklin
• What We Talk About When We Talk About Love by he is a must-read. -- Gaile Henson
• Jesus Christ he is everything I want to be in a writer. -- .
• My project title is What We Talk About When We Talk About Privacy because i'm dumb and i like raymond carver -- ratatouille genius
• Happiness. It comes on unexpectedly. And goes beyond, really, any early morning talk about it. Raymond Carver, Happiness -- PoemHunter.com
• I love James Ellroy.....Thomas Pynchon.....Bukowski.....Raymond Carver...Cathedral is 1 of the best books ever written so soulful -- DanteRoss
• "So much that is mysterious and important is happening out there this morning" - Raymond Carver -- ☸ A Bit Of Zen
• Seriously, this Heart song is like a Raymond Carver short story. -- Kylie Mason
• On - this, from Raymond Carver: 1/2 And did you get what you wanted from this life, even so? I did. -- Lou Cato
• God I fucking love Raymond Carver; his language and beats are so powerful -- Cause I'm
• He is the man. -- Paul McCarrick
• You can tell Hemingway's read James, Tolstoy, Proust, Turgenev, Flaubert. Now with Raymond Carver, all you get is that he's read Hemingway. -- Carl Robert Anderson
• Late Fragment by Raymond Carver And did you get what you wanted from this life even so? I did. And what did you want? (1/2) -- Kyle Oesch
• 'And did you get what you wanted from this life, even so? I did.' I concur with Raymond Carver. -- Lisa Marie
• Bought a Raymond carver book of poems at Powell's the other day.. He doesn't come off as a very fun drunk to hang with. -- Dylan Morrison
• Reading catch 22 and Raymond carver at the same time is quite a combo -- gb
• Raymond Carver, your writing is painfully boring and I don't give a fuck about the sex lives of working class Americans. -- vicky
• I am going to be working on a staged adaptation of Raymond Carver's "What We Talk About When We Talk About Love". my life is Birdman -- Ian Stewart
• "The words can be so precise they may even sound flat, but they can still carry; if used right they can hit all the notes". Raymond Carver -- M@rc€|o B@ez Mez@
• "Happiness. It comes on unexpectedly. And goes beyond, really, any early morning talk about it." - Raymond Carver -- Love Angels
• It is possible to write a line of seemingly innocuous dialogue & have it send a chill along the reader's spine. - Raymond Carver -- Sean Slagle
• Terrible student short film rendition of raymond carver's "catherdral" w/post-rock playing in background being shown in class. this is life -- erm
• Poets with the names of action heroes: Robert Frost Raymond Carver ee cummings ("eeee" is the sound his victims make) -- Martyn Pedler
• "So much that is mysterious and important is happening out there this morning" Raymond Carver -- Master In A Cave
• Happiness. It comes on unexpectedly. And goes beyond, really, any early morning talk about it. Raymond Carver -- kamala lakshman
• He is such a good argument for not drinking. (sips beer, reads sad, sad short stories). -- Rors' Angels
• The only thing i'm learning from this research paper i'm writing about raymond carver and ernest hemingway is that EVERYONE is an alcoholic. -- kg
• At a time like this A Raymond Carver haiku Is a small, good thing -- Clair
• Standing in my kitchen listening to Willie Nelson's "Both Sides Now" and eating reheated beef is a pitch for a Raymond Carver sitcom -- Matt Rickett
• Reading the conversation trail is like reading Raymond Carver's works and dirty realism -- Maria Ella
• 40- my favorite short story is a collection named " what we talk about when we talk about love " by Raymond Carver. -- A wallflower.
• Currently obsessed with short stories! he is my new favourite, so talented. -- Sam Eddy
• And did you get what you wanted out of life, even so. Raymond Carver -- Tiffany Wu
• I just finished Raymond Carver's Cathedral and am just sitting alone in a bar being awed and sad and jealous and oh sad. -- Riley MacLeod
• Raymond Carver's words seem apt at this time "This is awful. I don't know what's going to happen to me or to anyone else in the world" -- Maurice Sadlier
• He said "I feel like character in a Raymond Carver story". She said "Oh for Christ's" sake, don't be so dramatic" -- Rodney DeCroo
• I really picked the wrong 4 years to decide against turning into a Raymond Carver character. -- robert biegler
• Dang "A Small, Good Thing" by he is PURE BLISS. SO much detail and connection. Recommend you read it but beware: it is morbid. -- Spectrobits
• When I see or hear a friend quote Raymond Carver my heart explodes in that good way. I love being arrested by great language. Incision. -- Matthew Ryan
• There isn't enough of anything as long as we live. But at intervals a sweetness appears and, given a chance prevails. Raymond Carver -- ily fasie
• Somehow today is my first encounter with Raymond Carver's work being referred to as "K-mart Realism." -- Rebecca
• 2/2. "It is the writer's particular and unmistakable signature on everything he writes." ~Raymond Carver -- ⚓️ Butch
• Reading the late stories of Raymond Carver, those written after 'Cathedral'. It took me so long to learn how to read short stories... -- Ari Costello
• "Dealer Teamwork and the MPOP allow me to be more competitive and the speed-to-market is incredible. Raymond Carver - General Manager -- Sean Stapleton
• If you want a scary short story "Why, Honey?" by he is good. -- Joe Matar
• I'm still finishing but I'm confident that Ottessa Moshfegh is the closest thing we have to Raymond Carver today -- Will Speros
• Not sure if this is least or most relevant part of the article, but turns out Raymond Carver doesn't translate well into Korean. -- Jennifer Richardson
• Because the thing that O'Connor, Hemingway, and Melville have in common is nihilism. I think I squeezed Raymond Carver in there too. -- Diana Spindler

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