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Quote by Raymond Carver

“It's strange. You never start out life with the intention of becoming a bankrupt or an alcoholic or a cheat and a thief. Or a liar.”

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Raymond Carver

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. more

“Writing engenders in us certain attitudes toward language. It encourages us to take words for granted. Writing has enabled us to store vast quantities of words indefinitely. This is advantageous on the one hand but dangerous on the other. The result is that we have developed a kind of false security where language is concerned, and our sensitivity to language has deteriorated. And we have become in proportion insensitive to silence.”

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Author:N. Scott Momaday

“In the beginning was the word, and it was spoken.”

Source: The Way to Rainy Mountain

“We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity. We weren't punctilious about locating and punishing only Hitler and his top officers. We carpet-bombed German cities; we killed civilians. That's war. And this is war.”

Should War Country Cities Leader Christianity Officers Carpet Civilians Taliban Converting

Book:If Democrats Had Any Brains, They'd Be Republicans

Source: If Democrats Had Any Brains, They'd Be Republicans

“To look upon that landscape in the early morning, with the sun at your back, is to lose the sense of proportion.”

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Book:The Way to Rainy Mountain

Source: The Way to Rainy Mountain

“He used both hands when he made the bear. Imagine a bear proceeding from the hands of God.”

Made Hands Used Imagine Bears Proceeding Hands Of God

Author:N. Scott Momaday

“I sometimes think the contemporary white American is more culturally deprived than the Indian.”

Thinking Sometimes White Contemporary Indian Deprived

Author:N. Scott Momaday

“For the storyteller, for the arrowmaker, language does indeed represent the only chance for survival.”

Doe Language Chance Survival Storyteller

Author:N. Scott Momaday

“I am interested in the way that we look at a given landscape and take possession of it in our blood and brain. None of us lives apart from the land entirely; such an isolation is unimaginable. If we are to realize and maintain our humanity, we must come to a moral comprehension of earth and air as it is perceived in the long turn of seasons and of years.”

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Author:N. Scott Momaday

“There is a great good in returning to a landscape that has had extraordinary meaning in one's life. It happens that we return to such places in our minds irresistibly. There are certain villages and towns, mountains and plains that, having seen them walked in them lived in them even for a day, we keep forever in the mind's eye. They become indispensable to our well-being; they define us, and we say, I am who I am because I have been there, or there.”

“It's a landscape that has to be seen to be believed. And, as I say on occasion, it may have to be believed in order to be seen.”

May Order History Occasions Landscape

Author:N. Scott Momaday

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