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Raymond Carver was an influential American short story writer, born on May 25, 1938, and died on August 2, 1988. Known for his concise and straightforward style, his works have won the hearts of readers worldwide.

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Famous Raymond Carver Quotes

“I'm a heart surgeon, sure, but I'm just a mechanic. I go in and I fuck around and I fix things. Shit.”

Love Heart Work Career Mechanic Swearing Fix

Book:Where I'm Calling From: New and Selected Stories

Source: Where I'm Calling From: New and Selected Stories

“That's right,' Mel said. 'Some vassal would come along and spear the bastard in the name of love. Or whatever the fuck it was they fought over in those days.' Same things we fight over these days,' Terri said. Laura said, 'Nothing's changed.”

Love War Fighting

Book:Where I'm Calling From: New and Selected Stories

Source: Where I'm Calling From: New and Selected Stories

“And the terrible thing, the terrible thing is, but the good thing too, the saving grace, is that if something happened to one of us--excuse me for saying this--but if something happened to one of us tomorrow, I think the other one, the other person, would grieve for a while, you know, but then the surviving party would go out and love again, have someone else soon enough. All this, all of this love we're talking about, it would just be a memory. Maybe not even a memory.”

Love Relationships Loss

Book:What We Talk About When We Talk About Love

Source: What We Talk About When We Talk About Love

“You see, this happened a few months ago, but it's still going on right now, and it ought to make us feel ashamed when we talk like we know what we're talking about when we talk about love.”

Love Time Shame Talk

Book:Where I'm Calling From: New and Selected Stories

Source: Where I'm Calling From: New and Selected Stories

“Late Fragment And did you get what you wanted from this life, even so? I did. And what did you want? To call myself beloved, to feel myself beloved on the earth.”

Love Poetry

Book:A New Path to the Waterfall

Source: A New Path to the Waterfall

“I could hear my heart beating. I could hear everyone's heart. I could hear the human noise we sat there making, not one of us moving, not even when the room went dark.”

Love Humans Heart Moving Dark Rooms My Heart Noise Sat Heart Beating

Book:Where I'm Calling From: Selected Stories

Source: Where I'm Calling From: Selected Stories

About the Author

Born: May 25, 1938
Died: August 2, 1988
Known for: Writer
Quotes: 104

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Where I'm Calling From: Selected StoriesRelated source material

All of Us: The Collected PoemsRelated source material

What We Talk About When We Talk About LoveRelated source material

CathedralRelated source material

Call If You Need Me: The Uncollected Fiction and Other ProseRelated source material

Conversations with Raymond CarverRelated source material

Fires: Essays, Poems, StoriesRelated source material

Elephant and other storiesRelated source material

Where I'm Calling From: New and Selected StoriesRelated source material

Where Water Comes Together with Other Water: PoemsRelated source material

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